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bullfighting: Quick Facts

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Also Known As combats des taureaux • corrida de touros • corrida de toros • tauromaquia • tauromachy

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Julian Lopez El Juli, dressed in a blue and gold bullfighter costume, faces a charging bull while holding a pink and yellow cape in a sandy bullring in Barcelona.
Minoan Bull-Leaping Fresco from Knossos depicts three figures interacting with a leaping bull on a blue background, bordered by colorful geometric patterns.
Crowd of runners in white clothing with red scarves run alongside bulls on a cobblestone street during the Running of the Bulls at the Fiesta de San Fermin in Pamplona, Spain.
Mithraism
Protesters outside Catalonia's Parliament in Barcelona hold signs reading stop animal cruelty and stop, with images of bulls, demonstrating against bullfighting.
Julian Lopez, known as El Juli, stands in a bullring wearing an ornate blue and gold bullfighter costume, holding a large pink and yellow cape.
Maracaibo, Venezuela: bullring
Aerial view of Estadio Azul soccer stadium with a green field on the left and the circular Plaza Mexico bullring on the right, surrounded by buildings in Mexico City.
Ronda: Spain's oldest bullring
bullfight: banderillero and picador
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Key People

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Conchita Cintrón
American Portuguese bullfighter
Manolete.
Manolete
Spanish bullfighter
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John Fulton
American bullfighter and painter
Juli, El; bullfighting
El Juli
Spanish bullfighter
Dominguín.
Dominguín
Spanish matador
Juan Belmonte.
Juan Belmonte
Spanish bullfighter
El Cordobés
El Cordobés
Spanish bullfighter
Carlos Arruza.
Carlos Arruza
Mexican bullfighter
Ordóñez, Antonio
Antonio Ordóñez
Spanish matador
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Francisco Romero
Spanish bullfighter
Joselito.
Joselito
Spanish bullfighter
Domingo Ortega.
Domingo Ortega
Spanish bullfighter

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