MADRID (Reuters) - The Catalonia region of Spain is to vote on a motion to ban bullfighting on Wednesday. If the motion succeeds in the parliament, bullfighting will end in the area from 2012, closing ...

To understand the state of bullfighting in Spain’s northeastern Catalonia region, you need look no further than Las Arenas. The striking, late 19th century arena with faux Moorish arches, located near ...

Paco Ureña he returned to the ring before receiving emergency treatment ...

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, ...

A Spanish matador opened up about his sexuality in an interview with the Spanish newspaper El Mundo. Mario Alcalde, 31, told the outlet that he identified as pansexual. It is said to make him the ...

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 ...

I like to think of myself as a “toughie”, having spent my childhood being plonked on ponies and sent out hunting. True, I ...

In Madrid's grand Las Ventas bullring, an old-timey brass band strikes up an epic march. In tidy formation, teams of matadors, picadors and banderilleros file out onto the sandy arena floor. Over the ...

(CNN) — A retired matador was killed by a bull on Friday as he prepared the animals for a bullfight at an arena in Málaga, in southern Spain, organizers said. Ricardo Ortiz was handling the bulls in ...