MADRID (AP) — Álvaro Alarcón plays out the moment when he will enter Madrid's Las Ventas bullring for his final challenge as a “novillero,” or apprentice bullfighter. The 24-year-old has been training ...

Spain’s leading matador “stunned the bullfighting world” last week by “symbolically cutting off his ponytail in the ring”, said The Times. The gesture by Morante de la Puebla in Madrid’s Las Ventas, ...

Spanish bullfighter Morante de la Puebla performs a pass on a bull using a muleta during the Feria de Abril bullfighting festival at La Maestranza bullring in Seville on April 19, 2024. [AFP] Spain's ...

Spain's northeast region of Catalonia held its final bullfight last weekend, after voting last year to ban the practice. But it's a different story elsewhere in Spain. While relatively few Spaniards ...

Animal rights campaigners have condemned an award-winning Spanish film about bullfighting for “glamorising the torture of animals”. Tardes de Soledad (Afternoons of Solitude), a documentary about star ...

José Antonio Morante Camacho says he has fought his last bull. Fans appreciated his artistry but also his honesty about his struggles with mental illness. The Global Profile José Antonio Morante ...

Bullfighting retains a passionate following in some circles in Spain and leading matadors are treated as celebrities - Copyright AFP/File CRISTINA QUICLER ...