Bullfighting Traditions

Matadors performing in bullfighting arenas, featuring dramatic movements, vibrant costumes, and the interaction between matador and bull.

Racing bull with Matador, Torero or Toureiro in traditional dress, third part, so-called Faena, bullfighting, bullring Plaza de Toros de la Real Maestranza de Caballeria de Sevilla, Sevilla, Andalusia, Spain, Europe

Valencia, 03/19/2016. Fallas Fair. In the image, the right-handed Enrique Ponce on his second bull of the afternoon. Photo: Rober Solsona ARCHDC.

Valencia, 03/17/2024. Roca Rey in his second bull at the Fallas Fair. Photo: Mikel Ponce. Archdc.

Valencia, 03/17/2024. Roca Rey in his second bull at the Fallas Fair. Photo: Mikel Ponce. Archdc.

Seville, September 24, 2021. San Miguel Fair. Bulls from Juan Pedro Domecq-Parlade are being fought in a mano a mano between Morante de la Puebla, a hazelnut and gold bull, and Juan Ortega, a tobacco and gold bull. Photo: Raúl Doblado. ARCHSEV.

Racing bull with Matador, Torero or Toureiro in traditional dress, third part, so-called Faena, bullfighting, bullring Plaza de Toros de la Real Maestranza de Caballeria de Sevilla, Sevilla, Andalusia, Spain, Europe

Seville, 04/10/2024. Bullfight in Seville. Maestranza bullring. 4th Season. Bulls from El Parralejo for Miguel Ángel Perera. Photo: Raúl Doblado. ARCHSEV.

Seville, 04/20/2024. Bullfight on Saturday of the Fair. 14th season. Bulls from Victoriano del Río and bulls from Cortés. Photo: Raúl Doblado. ARCHSEV.

Madrid, 06/03/2022. Plaza de las Ventas.Bullfighters: José María Manzanares, Alejandro Marcos (Confirmation) and Tomás Rufo. Photo of Saint Bernard. Archdc.

Seville, May 3, 2025. Bullfight held at La Maestranza for bullfighters El Cid, Manuel Escribano, and Daniel Luque. Photo: Juan Flores. ARCHSEV.

Madrid, 09/06/2024. Las Ventas bullring. Bullfight of the San Isidro Fair. Charity bullfight. Fernando Adrián with the sixth. Photo: From San Bernardo. ARCHDC.

Bull stands in front of Matador, Torero or Toureiro in traditional clothing, bullfighting, bullring Plaza de Toros de la Real de Maestranza de Caballeria de Sevilla, Sevilla, Andalusia, Spain, Europe

Seville, May 7, 2025. 12th bullfight of the season. Bullfight held at La Maestranza, for bullfighters Miguel Ángel Perera, Juan Ortega, and Roca Rey. Pictured is Roca Rey, wearing light blue and gold. Photo: Juan Flores. ARCHSEV.

Madrid, 05/15/22. San Isidro bullfight at the Las Ventas bullring, with bullfighters Curro Díaz, Álvaro Lorenzo and Ginés Marín. Photo: Guillermo Navarro. ARCHDC.

Bull stands in front of Matador, Torero or Toureiro in traditional clothing, bullfighting, bullring Plaza de Toros de la Real de Maestranza de Caballeria de Sevilla, Sevilla, Andalusia, Spain, Europe

Valencia, 03/16/2024. Pablo Aguado at the Fallas Fair. Photo: Mikel Ponce. Archdc.

Bullfight, matador with muleta, fighting bull impaled with banderillas in the bullring, 'Tercio de muerte' phase of bullfighting, Spain, Europe

Madrid 4-06-2014 Charity bullfight with the presence of King Juan Carlos ... photo: Angel de Antonio ... ARCHDC.

Madrid, June 5, 2024. Las Ventas bullring. San Isidro Fair. Press Bullfight. King Felipe VI presides. Paco Ureña in his third bull of the afternoon. Photo: De San Bernardo. ARCHDC.

Madrid, 03/10/2021. Las Ventas Bullring. Bullfight by Juli, Perera and Daniel Luque. Photo: of Saint Bernard. Archdc.

Madrid, 05/19/2021. Vistalegre bullring. Hand in hand between Roca Rey and Pablo Aguado. The banderillo of Roca Rey, Juan José Domínguez, suffers a fuck. Photo: De San Bernardo. ARCHDC.

Seville, 04/21/2024. Fifteenth of the season. Real Maestranza. Miura bulls were fought for Manuel Escribano, David Fandilla "El Fandi" and Esaú Fernández. Photo: Raúl Doblado. ARCHSEV.

Matador placing banderillas in bull during bullfight in Spain

Seville, May 7, 2025. 12th bullfight of the season. Bullfight held at La Maestranza, for bullfighters Miguel Ángel Perera, Juan Ortega, and Roca Rey. Pictured: Miguel Ángel Perera, in navy blue and gold. Photo: Juan Flores. ARCHSEV.

Seville, 05/12/2024. Bullfight at the Royal Cavalry School with Sergio Domínguez "El Mella", Javier Zulueta and Mariscal Ruiz. Bulls from Fermín Bohórquez. In the image, Javier Zulueta. Photo: JM Serrano. ARCHSEV.

Seville, April 27, 2025. Second bullfight of the season at the Royal Maestranza of Seville. Photo: JM Serrano. Archsev.

Seville, May 1, 2025. Bullfight held at La Maestranza for bullfighters Morante de la Puebla, Juan Ortega, and Pablo Aguado. Photo: Juan Flores. ARCHSEV.

Seville, 04/15/2016. Bullfight at the April Fair. In the image, Morante de la Puebla, on the fourth bull, from which he cut off two ears. Photo: Raúl Doblado ARCHSEV.

Madrid, 06/04/2023. Las Ventas bullring. Bullfight at the San Isidro Fair. Victorino bulls for the matadors Paco Ureña and Emilio de Justo. Photo: Guillermo Navarro. ARCHDC.

Seville, May 1, 2025. Bullfight held at La Maestranza for bullfighters Morante de la Puebla, Juan Ortega, and Pablo Aguado. Photo: Juan Flores. ARCHSEV.

Bullfighter performing with bull in San Pedro bullring

07/25/2021. Santander, 07/25/21. Miguel Ángel Perera bullfighting in the Plaza de Cuatro Caminos, where he achieved an important victory with bulls from La Quinta. Photo: Juan Manuel Serrano Arce Archdc.

CESAR RINCON. MATADOR DE TOROS COLOMBIANO. BOGOTA 1965-.

Seville, May 7, 2025. 12th bullfight of the season. Bullfight held at La Maestranza, for bullfighters Miguel Ángel Perera, Juan Ortega, and Roca Rey. Pictured: Miguel Ángel Perera, in navy blue and gold. Photo: Juan Flores. ARCHSEV.

Madrid, 05/26/2022. Las Ventas bullring. San Isidro Fair with the right-handers, Morante de la Puebla, Juan Ortega and Pablo Aguado. Photo: Ángel de Antonio. ARCHDC.

Spain, Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, A Bullfight Scene

Bullfight,Acapulco,Mexico

Seville, May 5, 2025. Tenth bullfight of the Maestranza bullfighting season. A bullfight for José María Manzanares, wearing navy blue and copper. Bulls from Hnos. G. Jiménez and Olga Jiménez. Photo: Raúl Doblado. ARCHSEV.

Spain, Andalucia , Seville, Matador Standing In Front Of A Bull With His Cape Raised In The Arenal Bullring

Madrid 4-06-2014 Charity bullfight with the presence of King Juan Carlos ... photo: Angel de Antonio ... ARCHDC.

San Sebastián de los Reyes (Madrid), 08/26/2017. Bullfight by Miguel Ángel Perera, Alejandro Talavante and Ortega Cano at the San Sebastián de los Reyes festivities. Photo: De San Bernardo ARCHDC.

Matador with muleta with running bull, torero with red cloth in traditional dress, bullfight, bullring Plaza de toros de la Real Maestranza de Caballeria de Sevilla, Sevilla, Andalusia, Spain, Europe

Seville, May 6, 2025. The 11th bullfight of the season is held at La Maestranza for bullfighters Manuel Escribano, Miguel Ángel Perera, and Borja Jiménez. Pictured is Manuel Escribano, wearing a Soraya and jet-black dress. Photo: Juan Flores. ARCHSEV.

Mexico, San Luis Potosi, North America. Famed Spanish matador Julian Lopez El Juli (b. 1982) in action at Monumental El Paso. (MR)

High angle view of a matador fighting with a bull, Spain

Female Torero or torera, matador with bull, Plaza de Toros de la Maestranza bull ring, Seville, Andalusia, Spain, Europe

Bullfighting, Matadors with capes, fighting bull in first stage of fight, where bull is tested after entering bullring, 'Tercio de varas' stage of bullfight, Spain, september

Madrid, 06/05/2022. Plaza de las Ventas. San Isidro Fair. Bullfighters: Antonio Ferrera, Sergio Serrano and Román. Photo: of Saint Bernard. Archdc.

Madrid, 05/17/2021. Vistalegre bullring. San Isidro. Very serious goring of the bullfighter Manuel Perera. Photo: Guillermo Navarro. ARCHDC.

Seville, May 6, 2025. 11th bullfight of the season. Bullfight held at La Maestranza for bullfighters Manuel Escribano, Miguel Ángel Perera, and Borja Jiménez. Pictured: Borja Jiménez, wearing tobacco and gold. Photo: Juan Flores. ARCHSEV.

The 9 year old child matador RAFITA MIRABAL fights a bull in the Plaza de Toros - SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE, MEXICO

MONDEO JUAN GARCIA GIMENEZ MATADOR DE TOROS ESPAÑOL . PUERTO REAL 1934 - ACTUACION EN LA FERIA DE ABRIL DE SEVILLA , AO 1967-;.

CAMINO , PACO MATADOR DR TOROS ESPAÑOL . CAMAS 1941- PLAZA DE TOROS DE VALENCIA . FALLAS 1969;.

08/18/2001. Leganes Running of the Bulls.

Mexico, Jalisco, Puerto Vallarta, Bullfight. A Picador Lances The Bull To Weaken It In The Tercio De Varas.

Mexico, San Luis Potosi. Mexican matador Eulalio Lopez El Zotoluco at Monumental El Paso, Bullfight (or Fiesta Brava)

Seville, May 5, 2025. Tenth bullfight of the Maestranza bullfighting season. A bullfight for José María Manzanares, wearing navy blue and copper. Bulls from Hnos. G. Jiménez and Olga Jiménez. Photo: Raúl Doblado. ARCHSEV.

Man leaping over bull in European Bullfighting Championship 2012, Arenes d'Arles, Camargue, France, September 2012.

PACO OJEDA MATADOR DE TOROS ESPAÑOL . SANLUCAR 1955- ENTRANDO A MATAR;.

Bullfighting, bull impaled with banderillas in bullring, 'Tercio de banderillas' stage of bullfight, Spain, september

04/19/2010. Fair subscription Bullfight in the real maestronza of Seville, the Carte: Julio Aparicio, Morante de la Puebla and Cayetano Rivera Ordoñez.

Europe, Portugal, Estremadura Region, Leiria District, Colmeias

ATIENZAR , MARIBEL MATADOR DE TOROS ESPAÑOLA. ALBACETE1959;.

Festival in Alcala de Henares and the bullring; Madrid, Spain

During the Festa do Colete Encarnado (Red Waistcoat Festival), a bull running festival, a traditionally dressed 'cavalheiro' delivers the 'banderilla' mounted on his Lusitano stallion in the bullring of Vila Franca de Xira, District of Lisbon, Portugal, July 2011, sequence 2/3

Torero and bull, bull fight, Benidorm, Spain, Europe

Madrid, 06/01/2022. Las Ventas bullring. King Felipe VI presides over the charity run along with José Luis Martínez Almeida and Isabel Díaz Ayuso. Bullfighters, Morante de la Puebla, El Juli and Ginés Marín. Photo: De San Bernardo. ARCHDC.

In early May, the bullfights in Sevilla, Spain.

Crowds at a stadium for a Bullfight, Quito, Ecuador

Racing bull with matador, torero or toureiro in traditional clothes, bullfighting, bullring Plaza de Toros de la Real de Maestranza de Caballeria de Sevilla, Sevilla, Andalusia, Spain, Europe

Bull and matador at a bullfight in the Arena of Saintes Maries de la Mer before a bullfight, La Camargue, Provence, France, Europe

Madrid, 05/15/22. San Isidro bullfight at the Las Ventas bullring, with bullfighters Curro Díaz, Álvaro Lorenzo and Ginés Marín. Photo: Guillermo Navarro. ARCHDC.

Bull and matador at a bullfight in the Arena of Saintes Maries de la Mer before a bullfight, La Camargue, Provence, France, Europe

Mexico, Mexico City, Bullfighting at the Arroyo ring

Racing bull with matador, torero or toureiro in traditional clothes, bullfighting, bullring Plaza de Toros de la Real de Maestranza de Caballeria de Sevilla, Sevilla, Andalusia, Spain, Europe

Seville, 05/12/2024. Bullfight at the Royal Cavalry School with Sergio Domínguez "El Mella", Javier Zulueta and Mariscal Ruiz. Bulls from Fermín Bohórquez. In the image, Sergio Domínguez "El Mella". Photo: JM Serrano. ARCHSEV.

Seville, May 4, 2025. Bullfight held at La Maestranza for bullfighters Rui Fernández, Diego Ventura, and Guillermo Hermoso de Mendoza. Photo: Juan Flores. ARCHDC.

Madrid, 05/11/2022. Bullfight at the San Isidro Fair with Morante de la Puebla, El Juli and Pablo Aguado. Photo: Ángel de Antonio. ARCHDC.

Valladolid, 05/19/1966. Alternative of Sebastián Palomo Linares in Valladolid.

Mexico, Mexico City, Bullfighting at the Arroyo ring

Spain, Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, A Bullfight Scene

CORRIDA DE TOROS BANDERILLERO CITANDO AL TORO - FOTO AÑOS 60. Location: Plaza de Toros. Benidorm. Alicante. SPANIEN.

Palma de Río (Córdoba), 05/17/2016. Report on the bullfighter Juan Serrano Finito de Córdoba, in a tent on a farm in Palma del Río. Photo: Valerio Merino ARCHCOR.

Matador, bullfighter with red cape, Benidorm, Spain, Europe

Sevilla, Spain - bull fight

08/17/2001. Leganes Running of the Bulls.

Mexico, San Luis Potosi, North America. Bullfights (or Fiesta Brava) in Mexico begin with a bleeding of the bull.

Madrid, 05/13/2022. Bullfight. San Isidro Fair. Photo: Ángel de Antonio. Archdc.

ESPARTACO JUAN ANTONIO RUIZ MATADOR DE TOROS ESPAÑOL . ESPARTINAS 1962 - AÑO 1988 DESPLANTE DE RODILLAS;.

Race Camargue, the Roman Amphitheatre, Arles, Provence, France

Seville, May 4, 2025. Bullfight held at La Maestranza for bullfighters Rui Fernández, Diego Ventura, and Guillermo Hermoso de Mendoza. Photo: Juan Flores. ARCHDC.

LUIS MIGUEL DOMINGUIN. MATADOR DE TOROS ESPAÑOL. MADRID 1926-1996.

Young bull, Camargue race, amphitheatre of Arles, Arles, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France, Europe

Seville, 04/21/2024. Real Maestranza. Miura bulls for David Fandilla "el Fandi". Manuel Escribano and Esaú Fernández. Photo: Raúl Doblado. Archsev.

High angle view of a bull fighting, Plaza De Toros San Marcos, Aguascalientes, Mexico

Bull fighter, Benidorm, Spain, Europe

SPAIN - Garrotxa (district) - Catalonia - GERONA. Olot, "Festes del Tura" festivity; ( bullfight)

Madrid, 05/10/2023. Las Ventas bullring. San Isidro fair bullfight with El Juli, Roca Rey and Álvaro Alarcón. Photo: Ángel de Antonio. ARCHDC.

Torero, matador with bull, Plaza de Toros de la Maestranza bull ring, Seville, Andalusia, Spain, Europe

01/01/1978. Curro Romero in an act of one of his afternoons of glory.

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