for thousand of years. The killing is carried out by professional performers usually known as the “toreros”, performing various moves and skills within bullring in order to repress the bull. The moves are performed at a very close range with the bull and in some cases it has resulted in serious injury and sometimes even death to the performer. The bull fight is usually ended with the killing of the bull by the performers,

who jab a sharp knife in the spinal cord of the bull. In Portugal performers try to grab and hold on to the horns of the bull as it runs wt them with rage an anger. The performers are dressed in the traditional colorful dresses with long beautiful hats. There are various styles in fighting the bulls that are practiced all over Europe .the classic and the traditional style is the one in which the bull is killed.

Apart of the tradition, bull fight still receives heavy criticism and is considered as a barbaric and ruthless sport in which the bull dies a stressful, slow death. Bullfight is banned in many countries people being a apart of this are subjected to imprisonment and a heavy fine. In Portugal bull fighting is now banned, even the broadcasting of bullfights in prohibited.