Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Travel Trailer Owners Manual

Queens




Ottomila aficionados che si assiepano all'arena in una domenica di metà ottobre, che arrivano da ogni parte della città e della regione e da più lontano ancora.
Ottomila aficionados che indugiano a bere un bicchiere prima di entrare, discutendo animatamente, fumando un sigaro.
La musica di una banda.
Visits to the ganaderias in spring to admire the beauty of these beasts in the freedom of the field.
photos that fans make to the field and the arena, each other, admire, and on which they dream.
Besides books, the horns on the walls, memories of the golden years.

All this in a province where ... Andalusian or in some corner of southeast France?
No.
Valle d'Aosta. Exact
, Valle d'Aosta, Italy.

Why Valle d'Aosta is the Italian region where resist and a prosperous and vibrant bullfighting tradition alive: the Battle of the Queens, which we have already spoken , passionate about a whole region.

And from there to North writes Daniele Ronchi young photographer devoured by a passion for the Queens, keeps a blog on which to publish his great photos of the fighting, the best portraits of camponesse, the wrinkled faces of the farmers.

Reines Vallée d'Aoste worth a visit, to measure the temperature to another afición Italian, and to admire those photos.

And remember that Italy has had a long tradition of passion for bulls and play with the bulls, a long, centuries-old experience of bullfighting.

Maybe the Valle d'Aosta is a means to rejoin the Mediterranean culture of the bull.
It starts a year planning a course camarguaise in the final days of Aosta, a partnership with the nearby Camargue. The following year, also a course landaise why not.
Continue crossing cows with queens ganado bravo.
So few shows, publications, and even a tient, then an exhibition of fighting bulls, and then, sooner or later, a bullfight.

are just dreams?
Well sure.
We're kidding?
Well sure, but a little less.

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