Bullfighting

Bullfighting (Spanish: corrida de toros [koˈriða ðe ˈtoɾos] or toreo [toˈɾeo]; Portuguese: corrida de touros [kuˈʁiðɐ ðɨ ˈtoɾuʃ] or tourada [toˈɾaðɐ]), also known as tauromachia or tauromachy (Spanish: tauromaquia , Portuguese: tauromaquia; from Greek: ταυρομαχία "bull-fight"), is a traditional spectacle of Spain, Portugal, parts of southern France and some Latin American countries (Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Peru), in which one or more bulls are fought by humans in a bullring.

Portuguese-style bullfighting differs in many aspects from Spanish-style bullfighting.

The Running of the Bulls (in Spanish: encierro, from the verb encerrar, "to corral, to enclose") is a practice that involves running in front of a small group of cattle, typically six, of the toro bravo breed that have been let loose on a course of a sectioned-off subset of a town's streets.

La Malagueta is the bullring at Málaga (Andalucía, Spain) which since 1876 has been denominated a cultural asset of Spain (BIC).

The Bull-Leaping Fresco, as it has come to be called, is the most completely restored of several stucco panels originally sited on the upper-story portion of the east wall of the palace at Knossos in Crete.

CAS International is an international non-profit advocacy group which aims to end bullfighting.

AnimaNaturalis is an international non profit animal rights organization whose mission is to "Establish, promote and protect the rights of all animals in Spain and Latin America.

L'Écho taurin was a publication from Béziers, France which called for support to 'bull-fighting and southern freedoms'.

Mexican Hayride is a musical with a book by Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields and music and lyrics by Cole Porter.

A corraleja is a bullfighting festival in the Caribbean region of Colombia.

Bully for Bugs is a 1953 Warner Bros.

The Toreador Song is the popular name for the aria "Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre" from the opera Carmen, composed by Georges Bizet to a libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy.