After Spain, the most bullfighting
country is Mexico.
The Fiesta Brava and the cult of the
bull comes from prehistoric man, surely Neanderthal.
Then on the Greek islands like Crete
is evident the cult of the bull that becomes the mythological characters of
Classical Greece.
The Minos Bull and the Labyrinth are
two examples, the other Minotaur.
From the eastern Mediterranean the
cult travelled through southern Europe and North Africa.
In Spain it finds its definitive home.
The Fiesta Brava is its most spectacular manifestation.
But there are hidden places, almost
secret, decadent, forgotten, psychiatric, asylums with alcohol and free entry
and exit.
These are places of cult to the
Fiesta Brava but above all of cult to the dead bullfighters.
Ghosts imprisoned in glass cages for
eternity. They are eaten by moths and bedbugs. Cockroaches party in an
inoperative kitchen, tables seldom have a customer.
A place lost in memory.
“La Faena, where will memories go?”