The Ministry of Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda has requested the prohibition of the Toro de la Vega Tournament, which is scheduled to be held next Tuesday in Tordesillas, due to the controversial method of killing the Animaux. A possible end point for a tradition sustained for centuries by the historic Valladolid town where Juana La Loca was imprisoned for 46 years and where Spain and Portugal signed a treaty to divide up the world. The Torneo del Toro de la Vega is a bullfighting event that is celebrated on Tuesday of the second or third week of September as part of the festivities of Our Lady the Virgin of the Rock. The festival consists of releasing a bull near the town square to be led to the Duero river valley, where dozens of picadores and spearmen compete to spear the animal to death. Standard Related News No The day that Pedro Sánchez entered direct in 'Sálvame' and he promised to play with the 'Toro de la Vega' if a president arrived SM promises that if a president arrived he would prohibit the celebration of Tordesillas If the bull manages to survive the hunt, he is pardoned. This happened, for example, in 1993 and 1995, when two animals managed to exceed the limits without being killed by the participants. 'Bonito' and 'Presumido' appeared shortly after, the first due to injuries from the lances and the second shot down by the Civil Guard. A tradition in Castile To date the origin of this bullfighting festival is like looking for the cause of the fascination of the Mediterranean peoples for the bulls: unfathomable. Since ancient times, the existence of bullfighting festivals and games in the Iberian Peninsula has been documented, which are based on tricking the cattle and confronting them on foot or on horseback. These rituals are usually practiced indoors and used to involve mounted riders. However, throughout the Late Middle Ages, festivities organized in Castile by the authorities in the open field and which ended with the falling of the cattle are known. "In this town there are many priests who with indecency and a long bara go out on horseback through the streets as well as through the countryside" Historians place the germ of the Toro de la Vega in the tournaments and jousts of medieval origin that arose from falls of bulls to the Duero River during the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries. This happened in 1335 due to the birth of a daughter of Pedro I and in 1423 due to the visit of Juan II and Álvaro de Luna. Following this tradition, Tordesillas would be "the only bullfighting tournament with clear medieval and even Celtiberian roots that is preserved in Spain", in the words of Amando Represa Rodríguez, director of the General Archive of Simancas in 1979. According to the City Council of Tordesillas, the first reference wrote in which the festival is mentioned as dated in the year 1534, when it is cited in the book of the Brotherhood of the Holy Sacrament of Santiago Apóstol de Tordesillas: "He had his bullfights, with two bulls in the morning at la Vega and six in the afternoon”. This text is missing today and no further details are given about the particularities of the festival, apart from what there is a visitors' book to the Church of San Pedro, signed by the Visitor of the Guild Gabriel Sánchez de León and dated on the 26th of August 1555, which says: “to be informed that in this town there are many priests who with indecent habits and long beards go out on horseback as well through the streets as through the countryside, … YES ordered that from now on none who is ordained of Sacred Order go out in that form or in another to run »the Toros de la Vega. Tordesillas (Valladolid), 1969. Running of the Bull of the Vega. ABC During the 1870th and 80th centuries, news about the Brotherhood festivities continued, but it is not possible to find evidence of a periodic and organized practice until the XNUMXs-XNUMXs, when the City Council promoted its celebration in a more regulated and professional. Eleuterio Fernández Torres, in his 'Historia de Tordesillas', published in 1905, concluded that "this festival is relatively modern, not going back beyond the first years of the XNUMXth century or at least the end of the XNUMXth, not remaining from the old festival More than the Toro de la Vega, which instead of being thrown down the slope that was from the viewpoint of the poor to the Duero river, is released to be speared into the open field”. Criticism and prohibitions Although it was declared a festival of tourist interest in 1980 and a traditional bullfighting show in 1999, the Toro de la Vega tournament has suffered a storm of controversy, restrictions and criticism throughout its history due to the violent death suffered by the bulls camped out in the field. In the twentieth century there were several intellectual principles that raised their voices against the event. “It is hateful and unforgettable to see the torillo near a lonely tree, on the dusty road, fuming, blood, bellowing, martyr of a whim (…). His agony is cause for ridicule. He is punctured with more and more villainy, with more barbarism. He insulted him”, wrote Eugenio Noel, one of the most anti-bullfighting Spanish authors, about the Toro de la Vega. A royal order of 1908 asked to combat "the custom rooted in many localities of organizing capeas or bullfights in streets and public squares without the necessary precautions to avoid personal misfortunes demand VS spectacles." Given the great popularity of these festivities, very few municipalities dared to ban these traditions that remained hidden in the rural world. The Toro de la Vega moved to the center of the national spotlight in September 1954, when the NO-DO' dedicated part of the newsreel to showing the spearing of the animal in the Tordesillas camps. The spread of these images and the increase in jeeps, tractors, trailers and motor vehicles that participated in the hunt for the animals conjured up a collection and personalities to ban the party. Related News standard No The Government asks the Prosecutor's Office to paralyze the 'Toro de la Vega' in Tordesillas The JMA animals and the media, with the support of Minister Carlos Arcos y Cuadra, took on a campaign to suspend the event in Tordesillas. The authorities press for it, but the municipal resistance achieved a Pyrrhic victory. In 1966, in exchange for not suspending the show, Francisco Franco prohibited the bullfighting in the field, limiting the activity to a kind of confinement without harassment.
