Careers in Madrid with a bull loose 
Photo: Campua - Magazine "New World" - Newspaper Madrid Municipal
is well known the story of the bull on the morning of January 23, 1928 Madrid went through loose until walked into the busy Gran Via, where the bullfighter Diego mosque, Fortuna , knew his coat and endure with finally succeeded stock.
is also famous photography that is often illustrate this story, in which it appears the bull that starred already dead and lying on the pavement, and after him, posing in circle, the right Fortuna dozen people more. In another snapshot that is usually included in this regard is in the foreground the bull is still alive, crossed in the Gran Via and the background a group of people to the expectation (both photos are inserted throughout the text.)
But I decided to recall this anecdote in the history of Madrid is because, wrecked on the Internet, I saw a picture of that morning that I knew I wanted to share with you all. Which is put in front. In it, as you can see, there is the bull running down the Gran Via and, before him, three men on the run.
In view of this picture, many think that these men fleeing in terror from the arrival of the bull. But I want to think, in view of her wardrobe, the area of \u200b\u200bthe Capital where they are and given the absence of more passers-by, which is about three young men who enjoyed this makeshift "prison" in central Madrid.
And, speaking of reactions, it is not difficult to imagine that the unsuspecting locals acted in many ways to the emergence of that bull in the streets of the city.
Of course, there were scenes of shock and alarm along the entire route followed by the animal: screams, racing to safety, closures of businesses that are down in their path ... Also experienced frightening scenes, especially at first, had not yet suffered the alarm and the bull was still fresh, as in the Plaza area of \u200b\u200bSpain with Leganitos Street, where several elderly people were caught and rollovers. There was even a moment of panic, with images that had to be horrific, to break the bull market of San Ildefonso, near the Alta de San Pablo slide.
But from the outset there were also spontaneous fighters, men in tight situations and to remove youths who took the opportunity to run that bull loose or try capearlo with any outfit.
.................... Photo: Angelo - Journal ABC
And, as usual, this event also had a "hero": Diego mosque, Fortuna, a bullfighter whose career was in decline, but That morning I was walking along the Gran Via and, realizing what was happening, did not hesitate to shed her coat to be used as a cloak and, with a letter, hold the bull. The chronicles
that, once fixed the bull, the streets and balconies of the Gran Vía resembled the stands and the stands of a bullring, matador cheering him, to the point that the Grand Casino Militar you fell sword to finish the job. But the right-hander was not considered possible with this type of weapon, so he sent someone to bring a sword from his home in the nearby Calle Valverde.
As long as it was happening, it is said that Fortuna opposed the animal was shot dead by members of the security forces, claiming that the death was not worthy of a bull.
When finally they did get one of their stocks, Fortuna saluted the animal to go for the kill. Media and two Pithing said. But the balconies were stained white with countless handkerchiefs asking a trophy for the teacher.
Congratulations, Greetings, hugs ... and photos, as the most famous of all performed, in which the right is distinguished by wearing the coat clearer:
.......... .......... Photo: Alfonso Sanchez
That fact earned Diego mosque, Fortuna, the award of the Cross of Charity and also helped him to relaunch his career as a bullfighter.
But that morning, recognizing the innate bullfighting Fortuna showed and lamenting the fate of the wounded, I am left with the image of "closure" improvised on the Gran Via, which was immortalized with a photo of Campua and staged captured by the three young men on the run.
And not only were races that great artery of Madrid. It should be remembered as the official account, that on January 23, 1928, at about eight o'clock, a group of cattle were driven to slaughter by the banks of the Manzanares rampaged a bull and a cow towards the center of Madrid.
crossed the Puente de Segovia, followed by the Paseo de la Virgen del Puerto and taking the Cuesta de San Vicente, went to the Plaza of Spain. That, and the environment Leganitos Street, is where the chronicles that happened the first picked, the first take off and the earliest tenderers.
Then, taking as reference a set of information sources, stands the bull and the cow that was with him at the Plaza Conde de Toreno, and in the streets of San Vicente Ferrer and de la Palma, to appear at the height of the slide Alta de San Pablo and get into the Mercado de San Ildefonso, which is where lived the greatest scenes of panic.
Around eleven o'clock the chronicles say nothing of the cow and bull only referring to the lawless, and they say he went from that market to the Gran Via, which would have gone across the street from the Dodsworth, and ran as high as the Grand Casino Militar.
be impossible to trace all of the exact itinerary, it must have been many comings and goings and changes of direction, but with the data provided can be this rough plan of the route of that "closure"
In total, about four kilometers in about three hours of racing, scares and shocks.
is not desirable that such events occur, or to repeat, but if you give someone else ...
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