Tag: corrida
Beauties and the beasts: A look at some of Spain’s female bullfighters
By Livia Cockerell
AN exclusive Olive Press interview with Miriam Cabas, a 20-year-old veterinary student from the small town of Los Barrios across the bay...
Arguing about the bullfight
When I wrote a piece on Granada’s first corrida of the season a few weeks ago, I knew that it would provoke reaction, and I anticipated that most of that reaction would consist of disapproval, if not outrage
I’m taking the bull by the horns, insists British bullfighter
EXCLUSIVE: Trained by the ‘Pirate’ Padilla, British matador Alexander Fiske-Harrison argues that as the ‘national fiesta’ returns to Spanish TV, bullfighting is more popular than ever… and we Anglo-Saxons are big hypocrites to oppose it
Bullfighting banned in Catalonia
A parliamentary vote makes Catalonia the first mainland autonomous region in Spain to ban the practice