Fréjus.
As the tunnel, just at the exit on the highway there is a panel depicting the Roman arena.
not even know that there was a country called Fréjus.
The name jumped out a month earlier, referring to those few sites that bull at the time peeping on a monitor. Fréjus. He was planning a bullfight in a country with that name in mid-July.
Cesar Rincon, El Cid, Castella.
was 2005, to March, we saw our first running of the bulls and the virus was now working inevitably, not aggressive 's afición rarely has the inevitability of love at first sight, but slowly and inexorably.
There was a row, people thronged the entrance to nestle in the circus and take place.
was sunny and it was hot.
Fréjus is the magic of earlier times, of those fights that went with the innocence of childhood, of those bulls that were following as explorers of unknown lands and unknown.
Fréjus is that lady round and ruddy, an Andalusian hat on his head, a red flower in her hair white and unappealing, at which he sold to tourists and banderiglie aficionados.
That same lady was selling it then others, this time stained red with blood, leaving the race.
Fréjus is that band who crept among the tables in the bar, under the branches, where men and women and children in the shade and enjoy a cool glass of beer, the gang that attacked a sumptuous melody and epic, impossible not to immediately fix the memory.
Vino Griego, the first time I listened Vino Griego.
Tatatataaaaaaaa.
Fréjus is the people in line.
Fréjus is bullfighting, our second fight, the buio.
Castella che torea in mezzo alla pista e un gabbiano che volteggia lento sopra la testa del toro.
El Cid incornato.
Fréjus.
Fréjus nel sud della Francia, appena di qua dal Rodano.
La spiaggia si affaccia su quel mare che con i suoi riflessi certifica che siamo sulla Costa Azzurra, il paesino si illumina dei colori e profuma degli aromi tipici e unici di quella Provenza poco lontana da qui.
La prima corrida a Fréjus è stata data nel 1905, sotto le volte della sua arena romana, sorella minore dei circhi di Arles e Nimes: e fu dunque negli anni '50 che la tauromachia nel paesotto ebbe il suo slancio definitivo, e gente come Picasso o Cocteau frequentava assiduamente quella plaza de toros .
The arena of Frejus.
The same arena that played a key role in the winter of 1959, the dam broke Malpasset, and unleashed a wave of 40 meters down the valley to overwhelm the city.
423 deaths, which could be much higher if the arena, that arena millennia, had not a barrier breaking strength of that monster distuttrice water, protecting its citizens.
did not know, that on July 16, 2005, when we sat on those steps at the first notes of paseillo .
For the 1960 season, almost as a heartfelt tribute, arenas were put to new and equipped with a functional structure.
Dominguin here in '63 to attend a novigliada, sitting right next to Picasso: Luis Rodriguez invited him to put a couple of sticks, the number one then jumped on the track but fell awkwardly and svirgolò ankle. Dominguin returned in '72, when he obtained a good success cutting the ears of his second, which he had devoted a few minutes before Romy Schneider, sitting in the front row.
Over the years, the city is increasingly tied to its arena, whose runway was to perform the best fight the best bulls and bullfighters.
Here in Frejus 1968 El Viti was the subject of a sound Bronca , and before boarding the van with his subordinates is took off his shoes and threw them, not wanting to carry, back home, not even a grain of sand to the track.
came here in '74 Nimeño II, which saw its first Noviglio jump the boards, break through a door and be outside the arena, on the lawn that surrounds it. Striking a head was brought inside, and killed. The same
Nimeño II fought his last bull in Fréjus in 1986 in the evening, chatting in front of a glass, the surgeon said that the arena in fact two of them did the same job. Torero and doctors are there to conquer death. That
July 2005 we did not know who he was Nimeño II, but we've come to see a bullfight in Fréjus. It was sunny and Rincon opened the dance. There was
Rincon and we did not know that on that same track so many fighters who left their blood Paquirri, which seriously wounded in the leg refused to go to the infirmary and wanted to store his bull before dropping exhausted into the arms of companions, Pepe Luis Vargas gored in the abdomen 83; Stephane Meca in 2000, with the abdomen opened by a horn of a Hermanos Peralta, the ambulance had to wait stoically, late ... because blocked by antitaurini out there.
Or finally the horror experienced when nel'98 Conrado Gil came just one step away from death under the blows of the horns of a bull Pedrosa and saved him a miracle.
Here at Fréjus
passed El Cordobes and Antonio Ordoñez, Paco Ojeda and Palomo Linares, and the bulls of Prieto de la Cal, Palha, Nuñez del Cuvillo or Yonnet, Tardieu.
E 'on this video with sand Palha, for the first time in its history, its bull.
E 'here in Fréjus 13 August 2006 Juan Bautista pardoned a bull Victoriano del Rio: and in that same bull Julien Miletto killed the last bull in the history of taurine Fréjus.
Since 2007, the arenas are closed, ostensibly to work.
But the mayor now has clear ideas.
After only a few years ago, publicly and strongly advocated the importance of bullfighting tradition for cultural identity and history of Frejus, Elie Brun Monsieur in November 2010 told the local press that the arena Pablo Picasso (named so from '64) there are no more bullfights.
Not content with a few weeks later and at the traditional date of Christmas wishes, for an audience nurtured has candidly confessed that "I do not care about the bullfight."
Since then, the club of bullfighting fréjussien Lydia has launched a vigorous campaign of denunciation and action to prevent this extraordinary heritage is lost forever.
Fréjus for us is that second fight, that sun and that track, those tori che non capivamo e pure ci affascinavano enormemente, e quella versione di Vino Griego.
Fa male sapere che non ci torneremo più.
(alla storia taurina di Fréjus, la rivista Toros ha dedicato un numero monografico particolarmente interessante: è il 1895, del gennaio scorso, e quella in alto ne è la copertina)
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