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BARCELONA, Spain — Lawmakers in the region of Catalonia thrust a sword deep into Spains centuries-old tradition of bullfighting, banning the blood-soaked pageant that has fascinated artists and writers from Goya to Hemingway. Bullfighting in Spain Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter‘s honor . Ernest Hemingway Life is as the same as bullfight. Either you defeat a cattle , or the cattle chooses you to death.——Hemingway The history of bullfighting Bull fighting is very closely associated with Spain and can trace its origins back to 711 A.D. This is when the first bullfight took place in celebration for the crowning of King Alfonso VIII. It is very popular in Spain with several thousand Spaniards flocking to their local bull-ring each week. It is said that the total number of people watching bullfights in Spain reaches one million every year. Bullfighting was originally a sport for the aristocracy and took place on horseback. King Felipe V took exception to the sport however and banned the aristocracy from taking part, believing it to be a bad example to the public. After the ban commoners accepted the sport as their own and, since they could not afford horses, developed the practice of dodging the bulls on foot, unarmed. This transformation occurred around 1724. Bullfighting and flamenco is Spains national essence. Bullfighting bullfight is divided into Spanish and Portuguese-style bullfights are two main differences: the Portuguese-style bullfighting is bull riding Matador, basically useless assistant, you can have fun, do not necessarily want to kill the bull; Spanish matador in bullfighting on the ground and deal with the Bulls, the matador with a standard gunmen, spears and many other h