Founding of the capital Quito in Ecuador

Presidential Palace in QuitoOn December 6, Ecuadorians celebrate the founding of the capital Quito, or Quito’s birthday. The first week of December is actually a holiday. This event is waiting for a year. Flags are rolled around, amateur mobile orchestras roll around the streets, in the evenings people walk around the center. One of the most important cultural events of the year is a bullfight in honor of the holiday.

Performances run from Tuesday to Sunday, once a day at noon. Famous bullfighters from all over the world come to show their art. Local Ecuadorian toreros also perform. Fear, fear, adrenaline, the smell of blood. The courage and fearlessness of some bullfighters in the audience is breathtaking.

A good torero is necessarily a good actor, because the audience is completely enthusiastic about the action, they nervously quench their thirst and share wine with each other, from time to time they shout patriotic slogans at the city and not very flattering - at the too lazy, in their opinion, bull. And the winner receives his share of applause and shouts "Torero!", that is how the audience respectfully calls the real master.