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Bulls and Horses running in Cheste Festival

August 7, 2009 | Valencia, Spain | Vetting explained

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Cheste it is a town near from  Valencia in SpainLast 2nd august 2009, Cheste Festival celebrated the entrance of horses and Bulls at 19.00 hours . This tradition comes from 1850 but there are some periods whiches was not celebrated for differents reaoson. With a distance of 1200 meters approximately and going out from the street and ran the streets of Cheste's center to show the beauty and the spectacle of this entry.  Many people around the main  streets of the population are waiting the horse and bulls. The riders Manolo, Alef, Guillermo, Abel, Jose Antonio and Maria Angeles Rodrigo were preparing themselves 15 minutes ago to the entrance and they were practising with horse to prepare to run.Many people from the other towns came to this entrance to enjoy Cheste Festival. One of the peculiarity is that there is one woman ride a horse which is named Amazonas. This woman is the first spanish woman who runs with a horse in  big entrance.Her name is Maria Angeles Rodrigo and her passion is horses and bulls. The entrance of bulls and horses is realised in one minutes and it is amasing and spectacular.

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