“Culture is not imposed by any ruler, no matter how much it is determined. It is the popular will that chooses how he likes to live and what values must be supported.”
Thus, he expressed himself this Sunday at the Maestranza Theater in Seville Victorino Martín, livestock and president of the Toro de Lidia Foundation, at the XLI Taurino proclamation of the April Fair, organized by the Royal Maestranza de Cavalry as a prologue of the city’s bullfighting spring.
Victorino Martín, who is already part of a long and prestigious list of preachers, defended bullfighting “as an exceptional and multiple heritage that we are obliged to preserve,” they denied the successful relationship of her livestock iron with Seville, and piropated the city, of which she said she is “magical and mysterious, falls in love, inspires and makes you dream.”
“Today’s bull is the most worked in the history of bullfighting, because it is also the one that is most demanded in the ring,” he added. “But the greatness of the bull is seen in the square; because it is raised to be dealt with, and without the bullfighting, without the bullfights, the bull would not exist.”
“Therefore, although bullfighting is still very alive,” he nodded, “he needs the commitment of all its components to make it known, promote and disseminate them without complexes.”
It was extended below in explaining the different aspects of bullfighting cultural heritage. First, he pointed out that “it is part of our way of being and thinking”, it is “environmental heritage” (“in Spain and Portugal there is a unique ecosystem that man has created, which is the pasture”), genetic and biodiversity heritage, fixed population in the countryside, and, in addition, “bullfighting for many people is their life.”
“Bullfighting is a culture that unites,” he concluded.
On the relationship of his livestock with Seville, he recalled on April 18, 1996, when the ‘Victorinos’ stepped on the raffle of the teacher, with Ortega Cano, El Tato and Pepín Liria in the poster.
Since then, 25 appearances, and “the artistic balance has been of memorable afternoons: four bulls back to the ring and an pardon.”
He highlighted the bullfighters who have been united to memorable bull names: El Tato (summer), Liria (Gallareto), Ferrera (nonsense and machined), Ureña (Baratero), El Cid (Burgundy), Notary (Cobradiezmos), Emilio de Justo (Portezolano) and Borja Jiménez (Miligrano).
Victorino Martín later traveled to April 13, 2016, when Manuel Escribano, Morenito de Aranda and Paco Ureña are announced in the teacher, and in fourth place the cobradiezmos bull comes out to the Albero, which would be pardoned. “The task is memorable,” he said, “and what he had dreamed of, but not as a bullfighter (Victorino was novillero), but as a brave bull breeder.”
“We live convulsed times,” he concluded. “It is time to express and without complexes what we are and how we want to live. Bullfighting lovers are obliged to preserve and defend this rite that has made us live extraordinary moments. If we do not do it today, tomorrow it can be late.”