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It is also funny to note that many other roman arena and theater are still used today for shows. From concert to bull fighting.

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I attended a concert at one in Orange:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Theatre_of_Orange

I wondered if emperor Augustus could imagine his statue would overlook such an event centuries later.

One must note * across Europe. No bullfighting in Italy.

And in Switzerland this is Swiss Cow fighting (combat de Reines)

Note that's two cows fighting one other

I didn’t realize that bull fighting happened in Italy, I thought it was an unfortunate Spanish thing

I think he means Roman era amphitheatres in Spain.

Tauromachy (bullfighting) is a very ancient ritual: the spanish one is just one of its most recent formalisation. Venationes (hunting games) were common practice in Rome. The picture of gladiators fighting lions in the Colosseum is iconic, but bulls were also used.

I wonder wether the whole Matador thing is a direct-line descendant leftover of the games in Roman time Iberian arenas or if there have been discontinuities and reinventions along the way.

It's also older than Rome, there are plenty of Minoan era representations of bullfighting (leaping, but that's still a tradition in France and Spain, too).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull-leaping

In high school my track team once ran around the Circus Maximus for practice.

Was it an Italian high-school?

No, my high school took a trip to Italy.

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