Bous a la Mar
Fest Around the World, TriViA Monday, July 18, 2011
The popular festival held in Denia in which revellers chase a bull into the sea during the “Bous a la Mar” (meaning "Bulls at the Sea") is held in July. The highlight of this week long festival is watching bulls run down the main street Marqués de Campo, only to be chased into the Mediterranean sea by those daring enough to enter a makeshift bull ring with them.
The festival is held in honour of the Santisima Sangre and commemorate a monk named Pedro Esteve, who, as the legend has it, saved the coastal town of Denia from a plague in 1633. The bulls chased into the sea are later brought back to land by small boats.
Posted by Bizdom Pandey
on Monday, July 18, 2011.
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