France, which is organized every year tens of runs, has taken the unprecedented decision to register the bull in its list of intangible cultural heritage, following the criteria defined by UNESCO. This inscription dates back to last January, but the news had gone totally unnoticed until Friday, when he announced the National Observatory of Bullfighting Cultures, coinciding with the start of the Feria de Arles.
The neighboring country has thus become the first in the world to recognize this practice as cultural heritage, although the distinction is not big changes to their practice, very common in the south. "We confirm that the bulls are registered since January in the Intangible Cultural Heritage list, when the nomination was approved by a committee of the Ministry of Cultural ethnological," confirmed a spokeswoman for the ministry in question.
The source added immediately that this decision does not imply any value judgments about the practice in France as in Spain, faces fans with detractors. In one recent poll conducted on this subject, dating back to 2007, almost half the population is in favor of a ban, similar to that approved in Catalonia.
The initiative of the National Cultural Centre Taurinas, based in Arles, one of the epicenters of Bullfighting South of France, who proposed to the ministry the listing. Its president, Andre Viard, celebrates the fact that their country will become "the first country in the world of bullfighting makes a management that is important to note, due exclusively to scientific criteria," he adds.
"The run, which was introduced in France in the mid-nineteenth century on the basis of oldest bullfighting traditions, is now present in four southern regions [Aquitania, Media Pyrenees, Languedoc-Roussillon and Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur], where every year, are organized shows in some forty cities, "he recalls.
"How can our culture minister (...) encourage archaic survival is to make a spectacle of animal torture?" is angered by his side, Claire Starozinski, Alliance corrosion, in a statement. The bullfighting denounces "disgraceful endorsement of the French State" into practice. 
The neighboring country has thus become the first in the world to recognize this practice as cultural heritage, although the distinction is not big changes to their practice, very common in the south. "We confirm that the bulls are registered since January in the Intangible Cultural Heritage list, when the nomination was approved by a committee of the Ministry of Cultural ethnological," confirmed a spokeswoman for the ministry in question.
The source added immediately that this decision does not imply any value judgments about the practice in France as in Spain, faces fans with detractors. In one recent poll conducted on this subject, dating back to 2007, almost half the population is in favor of a ban, similar to that approved in Catalonia.
The initiative of the National Cultural Centre Taurinas, based in Arles, one of the epicenters of Bullfighting South of France, who proposed to the ministry the listing. Its president, Andre Viard, celebrates the fact that their country will become "the first country in the world of bullfighting makes a management that is important to note, due exclusively to scientific criteria," he adds.
"The run, which was introduced in France in the mid-nineteenth century on the basis of oldest bullfighting traditions, is now present in four southern regions [Aquitania, Media Pyrenees, Languedoc-Roussillon and Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur], where every year, are organized shows in some forty cities, "he recalls.
"How can our culture minister (...) encourage archaic survival is to make a spectacle of animal torture?" is angered by his side, Claire Starozinski, Alliance corrosion, in a statement. The bullfighting denounces "disgraceful endorsement of the French State" into practice.
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