Bull festivals are a form of cruelty and violence

At popular festivals in towns across Spain, bulls are immobilised, pulled with ropes, attacked, forced to run, thrown into the sea, and have torches lit on their horns. The animals suffer falls, blows, intense pain, and sometimes death.

The cruelest form of festivity involves attaching balls soaked in a flammable substance to their horns and setting them alight to watch the animals run in desperation.

Let's put an end to cruel festivities!

We are carrying out the largest and most in-depth investigation into the more than 18,000 cruel animal festivals held year after year in Spain, which are unfortunately on the rise. We want to expose the abuse hidden within thousands of towns' celebrations and traditions.

The bullfighting industry sees its future threatened as support dwindles, and is increasingly turning to popular festivals as a growing business. We want to put a definitive end to cruel festivities. Will you help us?

A bull is called a roped bull to the modality of popular bullfighting celebration consisting of the release in a locality of a cow with one or more ropes tied to its head to control its movements and attacks. The rope bull is probably the most atavistic spectacle and also the most distressing for the animal, being the one that limits its movements the most and for the longest time.

It is a modality that takes place in a square open to the sea located in the port or the beach of the town where it is held. There it is about the bull chasing the fans, who avoid their attacks by jumping into the sea and provoking the animal until it also falls into the water.

It is about loose bulls in a ring, where they are persecuted, harassed and mocked by young men from the town.