In and around the Camargue, the number-one sport is bullfighting, though this is usually the course camarguaise, involving variations on the theme of removing cockades from the base of the bull's horns. It's generally the "fighters", rather than the bulls, who get hurt. Further west, particularly in the Landes département, you'll come across the similar courses landaises, where men perform acrobats with the by no means docile local cows.Spanish bullfights, known as corridas, do take place in southern France. The major events of the year are the Féria de Nîmes at Pentecôte (Whitsun) and the Easter Féria at Arles.
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