Sentences with word «bullfighting»

An accomplished debut mystery set in the high - stakes and decidedly murky world of bullfighting in Valencia, Spain

Property Location With a stay at Albergue Inturjoven Córdoba - Hostel, you'll be centrally located in Cordoba, steps from Bullfighting Museum and Cordoba Synagogue.

Study for Bullfight no. 1 is my favourite painting on display.

Transforming the iconic San Pedro bullfighting ring into luxury accommodations, Quinta Real Zacatecas is a historic destination in Zacatecas, Mexico preserving the character and beauty of its original 19th century structure.

Property Location With a stay at Las Casas de la Juderia in Cordoba (Jewish Quarter), you'll be minutes from Bullfighting Museum and Cordoba Mosque.

True: As bullfighting with Bulldogs became viewed as an inhumane sport, the region decided it was too dangerous, and banned the sport in the mid 18th century.

Downtown hotel situated near financial center, 2 mins from Campo Pequeno bullfight arena & C.Gulbenkian botanical gardens & museum...

Some Spanish breeders support the recent hypothesis that the bullmastiff originated in Spain and was nothing more and nothing less than the bull dog that was used during bullfights at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

On 22 April 2011, French culture minister Frédéric Mitterrand officially inscribed bullfighting on a list enumerating the country's cultural heritage.

Limerock is the ultimate bullfight with 4 separate classes running the 1.5 mile historic track in connecticut and yesterday's race lived up to the hype.

As Wesley J. Smith said this past Thursday in a post on Secondhand Smoke, the fact that the government of Catalonia has voted to ban bullfighting in that region of Spain starting in 2012 is a good thing.

In the Mexican Caribbean, Cancun is home to a small bullring, the Plaza de Toros, where bullfights take place on Wednesday afternoons Jan. - April.

Bloodless bullfighting is an event common in Portugal and has been introduced to Canada.

Based on the classic children's book «The Story of Ferdinand» by Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson, the film stars John Cena as the titular Spanish Fighting Bull who yearns to live a pacifist life but is forced into bullfighting in order to earn his freedom.

Among the many attractions in the area, one of the most important is the Fiestas de Pedro Romero festival (a 19th century style bullfight fair) held in early September in the famous Plaza de Toros de Ronda bullring.

Hemingway may provide our best - known literary touchstone, but Kennedy is practically anti-Hemingway in her approach: instead of emphasizing physicality and machismo, she writes sensitively about the more spiritual aspects of ritual bullfighting, finding a connection between her own confrontation with death and what bullfighters experience every time they step into the ring.

Marlborough Fine Art's stand at Frieze Masters is given over to a solo exhibition of Francis Bacon's prints and paintings, including the extraordinary Study for Bullfight no. 1 — a powerful vision of violence in a humming orange arena.

The decorator used his art world connections to help secure a total of 85 works, including a number of special commissions and loans, such as a series of Catherine Opie photographs that replaced some yellowed bullfighting posters in an upstairs hallway.

Bullfighting takes place in only 10 % of the French national territory.

Rachel Harrison will present two films by the underappreciated Spanish director Carlos Velo: Almadrabas (1934), about tuna fishermen, and his Academy Award - nominated Torero (1956), considered one of the most authentic and gripping films about bullfighting ever made.

The latter, a silent film adaptation of Snow White, transposing the characters and actions in the world of 1920s Spanish bullfighting.

The gladiators may have long gone, but today over 20,000 people still go there to watch bullfights or concerts and lit up at night, the place is stunning.

So instead, I planned a month of traveling across Spain to visit the cradle of modern bullfighting in Ronda, watch the new young matadors clutching for Tomás's mantle in Madrid and Seville, and catch the tail end of San Fermín in Pamplona.

Hosting its last corrida in 1975, the San Pedro bullfighting ring now represents and celebrates its lively past and significance through vibrant facilities and gracious service.

New York: Biala's new paintings open at Stable Gallery (October 15 - November 2) featuring the artist's bullfight paintings.

Just four works carried guarantees, including a 2008 Rudolf Stingel gold «carpet» painting, «Untitled (Plan B),» and a large 1990 Miquel Barceló «Muletero» bullfight canvas.

Tickets for the Sunday bullfights range between $ 20 — $ 100.

According to CAS International, the largest anti — bullfighting organization in the world, every year more than 250,000 bulls and cows are left at the blood sport's mercy.

On Sunday afternoons every November, Peruvians pack the Plaza de Acho bullring in Lima to watch elite matadors from all over the world participate in the Señor de los Milagros Bullfight Festival.

Construction began on the Plaza de Acho in 1766, making it the second — oldest bullring in the world and the premier bullfighting venue in Lima.

Today Ronda only has bullfights once a year, fought in September during the «Feria Goyesca,» a festival Antonio Ordóñez founded.

His family was responsible for the introduction of the cape and modern sword used in the corrida, but Pedro is credited with transforming bullfighting into an art form.

Before, questioning bullfighting as a cultural tradition had been taboo in Spain — to do so was to be seen as a traitor, unpatriotic.

As pressure mounted to ban the corrida across the country, King Felipe VI, a trophy hunter in Africa as well as passionate fan, had publicly stated Spain would leave the EU before renouncing bullfighting's place in Spanish culture.

Eighteen years after my first visit, I flew back to Madrid to see some amateur bullfights held at Las Ventas.

The modern style of bullfighting began with a cripple named Juan Belmonte, who many consider the finest bullfighter who ever lived.

Ronda had the oldest bullring in the country (built in 1785) and Spain's two most famous bullfighting dynasties, the Ordóñez and Romero families both call Rondo home.

He feels that Spain, already showing signs of interest, would take up baseball on a broader scale, though it won't ever rival bullfighting.

Besides innumerable bullfight photographs and a full - length portrait of the late Manolete, there are on display all the traditional and beautiful regalia of the bull ring.

It seems to be the attitude of most U.S. publications to ignore bullfighting and hope it will go away someplace, rather than attempt to understand the great interest that it holds for millions of people the world over.

Yet it will also vote against the coalition on the programme motion, setting up the prospect of a parliamentary bullfight that most analysts believe will make the coalition's life hell.

The French bullfighting industry is kept alive by public funding.

Question: why bullfighting receives public funding despite being removed from cultural heritage list?