Encierro

Encierro is a Spanish term meaning literally “enfermement”. With the direction first, this word indicates the fact of locking up the bulls with the Corral are , course generally contiguous to the arenas, in which they will be kept until the day of the Corrida.

In a second direction, it indicates the batch of bulls intended for the bullfight. “For such bullfight, the encierro is of Victoriano del Río” thus means “For such bullfight, the batch of bulls comes from the breeding of Victoriano del Río”.

Presentation

Spain

In certain towns of Spain, the corrales are not contiguous to the arenas, so that the bulls must be brought the very same day bullfight there; they are accompanied by Cabestro S , oxen drawn up with this use. In a third direction, the encierro is thus the way carried out by the bulls, since the corrales to the arenas. Those which want of it thus benefit to go down in the street, on the way of the encierro , and make the course from it in front of (or behind for the least bold!) bulls. Today, in these cities, the encierro is not thus made for questions of need (the few hectometers which separate the corrales from the arenas could just as easily be carried out in the truck), but becomes an aim in itself any more. Most famous of the encierros are those of Pampelune, at the time of the festivals of San Fermín (from July 7th to 14th), but many villages of the north of Spain have the also spectacular ones and médiatisés.

France

In the cities and villages of the Rhone delta, Gard and Herault, the encierros are in fact of the lâchers of bulls of the Camargue on a closed course, in a street closed at its two ends by carts and barriers, or on a public place of which the accesses are closed same manner. A Abrivado is to release bulls camarguais in the streets of the village on a course bringing them to the arenas; the bandido is the return of the bulls of the arenas to the tank (truck).

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