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Apart from the conventional fights, bulls are the very heart of many celebrations in the form of encierros (running them into
pens), capeas (playing them with the cape), or even tethering them, tipping their horns with wooden balls and letting them loose in the streets,
as happens in Coria (Cáceres) for the feast of San Juan. To give a few examples of these events, the following list is indicative of their
importance: encierros and capeas in Ciudad Rodrigo at Carnival time; cross-country encierros and espantás in
Fuentesaúco (Zamora) on 2nd July; bous del mar festival in Denia (Alicante) on the second Sunday in July; Vaquilla del Angel
(calf festival) in Teruel on the Sunday nearest 10th July; encierros and festival in Peñafiel's magnificent Plaza del Coso (Valladolid);
fire bull in Nogueruelas (Teruel) on 15th and 16th August; encierros in Cuéllar (Segovia) thought to be the oldest in Spain on the
last Sunday in August, and in Ampuero (Cantabria) on 8th September; the lancing of the bull in Tordesillas (Valladolid) on the following
Tuesday; dedicated to Christ, a bullfight on the beach at Candás (Asturias) on 14th September whilst in Cardona (Barcelona) the oldest tradition
of Catalonian tauromachy with the corre de Bou on the second Sunday in September, and on the same date Altura (Castellón) has a festival including
the whole range of activites (encierros, capeas, tipping the horns, etc.) 29th September; tipping the bulls horns with wooden balls in Mora de Rubielos
(Teruel); for the feast of San Miguel bull festival in Medinaceli (Soria) at nightfall on the nearest Saturday to 13th November whose origins would seem to be
in offerings, and an innumerable amount of festivals of all types such as those held throughout Navarre.
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