Bulls: Morante will debut a go well with of lights because of the Riojano Center in Madrid | Culture | EUROtoday

It is the biggest prize awarded in present bullfighting: a go well with of lights, rioja and gold, custom-made by Antonio López, from the Fermín tailor store, valued at 12,000 euros. That’s him trophy which the Centro Riojano of Madrid offers every season to the winner of the San Isidro Fair.

Last 12 months’s fortunate winner was Morante de la Puebla, who on Tuesday night time excitedly picked up such a treasured present and which is able to premiere on the subsequent April Fair in Seville, the place it’s introduced for 4 afternoons.

The Sevillian bullfighter was unable to choose it up final autumn as a result of his well being issues, and has now gone to Madrid as a result of “threat” from the promoters that the costume would lastly be left hanging in a show case. This was made publicly identified by the secretary of the jury, Vidal Pérez Herrero, who identified that the decision had been adopted on June 17 unanimously by all its members.

The award ceremony introduced collectively quite a few followers, in entrance of whom the Sevillian bullfighter thanked him for the award and said: “La Rioja is part of two great moments in my career: when I won Arnedo’s Golden Shoe (in 1996, while I was still a bullfighter) and this, which is the best award that exists in bullfighting.” “How was I going to retire after getting this trophy?” he added. “The day I release it [no aclaró en público la fecha] I will try to rise to the occasion and I will keep La Rioja and this beautiful meeting with all of you in my thoughts,” Morante concluded.

The president of the Rioja Center, José Luis Rupérez, sang the deserves of the winner, and guaranteed: “Morante does not bullfight to convince, but to excite, and in San Isidro he once again reminded us that bullfighting is not a sum of passes, but a language.”

He identified that the award was born in 2000 – that is its twenty first version – “to reclaim the name of La Rioja and elevate the color of red wine to the category of bullfighting color”; and thanked the institutional help of the Government of La Rioja (the Minister of Culture of the autonomous neighborhood was current) and the sponsorship of the Marqués de Vargas and Muga wineries and the Carriquiri livestock farm.

“One more year, Rioja once again dresses up in lights,” he concluded.