A step by step guide to bullfighting. I know. Its not nice. It is however, something I would highly recomend seeing at least once in your lifetime. The music, atmosphere, sun and lemonade made this a surreal but thoroughly enjoyable experience.
Firstly, all the horses and torreros enter and do a round of the ring.
They leave and a single bull enters. About 5 torreros run in and out of the ring distracting the beast and then running lightening fast behind the barrier. At this point the bull is at its most bravo. 
Some people´s flats overlook the ring. I saw an old woman in a pink jumper watching from her window.
The next stage is possibly the stangest. Two men on horseback enter the ring. The horses are blindfolded and wear huge coats. One of the men on horseback then stabs the bull for the first time and quite rightly, the bull fumes and attempts to knock over the horse.
I´m not sure writing could ever do justice to the skill, and dance like quality of bullfighting. The torreros respect the bulls and the two engage in a human-beast tango. In the photo above el Cayetano has taken his hat off to the bull.
Leandro (the torrero in the above photo) pulled a lot of fantastic poses. At one point he threw off his shoes and fought bare foot.
Now three different torreros take it in turns to stab the bull with sharp, fluffy looking sticks.
And flee sharpish.
About a minute passes whilst the bull just watches them hiding.
Then, which ever Torrero is the protagonist of said fight enters the ring alone and seems to hypnotise the bull with the red bandera. Hidden behind the fabric is a sword. He stabs the bull and then the others enter, distract and dizzy the animal with pink and gold banderas whilst the main Torrero pulls out the sword. Using the red flag he lulls the bull into staring at the ground. He stabs the bull once more, just above the neck. It dies.
The mules of doom carry it off, and the ring fills with the sound of bells chinkeling.Strange as it sounds, it was a fascinating way to spend a Sunday afternoon. Not too sangriente either. Just musical, balletic and very, very impressive.