Bullfights: The Seibo says Oooolé!

The bullfightsrecently declared Cultural Heritage of the country, have just been consecrated as the most original and main tradition of the patron saint festivities of the city of El Seibo.

Bullfighting in the seibana style, which is practiced during the first days of May each year, attracts thousands of people, due to the emotion, color and hubbub it generates.

The event, mounted by the Brotherhood of Fervorosos de la Santísima Cruzhas had a spectacular return, because it was not held in two previous years due to the pandemic, achieving this time, greater splendor, better organization and color.

The number of people it attracts has exceeded expectations, and this makes its organizers happy, since it is intended to be held in the Multipurpose Plaza built by the Governmentvia the Ministry of Tourism, whose minister David Collado, was on his land last week reevaluating to continue construction work.

New and skilled bullfighters in the art of bullfighting, they see action in the bullfighting afternoons that start after 4:00 in the afternoon, escorted by horsemen and horsemen from various associations in the region and the country.

The tradition, which has just been recognized by the Senate of the Republic as ‘Cultural Heritage of the Dominican Republic’, fills the circle of about 700 square meters in the Las Quinientas sector, continuing to Los Multis.

THE PUBLIC CHOIRS

At the sound of the trumpet they give way to the exit of the furious animals and, from the torin, they get excited with a good game or effective lasso of the veteran cattlemen of the company Central Romana, which gives the bulls for the fights.

The type of bullfighting practiced in El Seibo is from the Sevillian typewhere the bull is not killed, but only gets tired. It is also prevented from hitting, poking or mistreating the animals that are selected for the show.

The emotion grows when the novice bullfighters and some of the veterans are attacked or beaten by the bulls, for which there is an aid brigade, with Red Cross and Civil Defense personnel, attentive to first aid, when it is warranted.

Sometimes the intruders have had to be transferred by ambulance, when they manage to circumvent the fence of the police officers inside the fence, who try to prevent the tradition from being tarnished.

Source-listindiario.com