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White closure is a centennial celebration that brings together, every year several thousand visitors "to sit in White and in their own people and the inhabitants of the municipality is dumped in the festivities and welcoming all as one at home ", said Esther Horton, Councillor Jubilee Hall taurine after discovering a statue at the entrance of the village.
The sculpture, the first of a series of six that has been designed for the people, the artist César Fernández Arias, simulates a bull through the very word "bull" in which the composition plays with letters to make the body of animal.
Thus, the "t" is the head with the horns of the bull and the "o" is the rump with the tail of the animal.
According to the local mayor, Rafael Laorden, "the city's bullfighting tradition is symbolized in the sculpture that welcomes people to all visitors and reflects the taste of the inhabitants of this holiday."
This year's closure will have a pet that is part of the "White Villa del Toro" which seeks to make White a national reference in the bullfighting culture.
Osvaldo, a name chosen for the mascot, will be officially unveiled after the closure of children, where children have enjoyed a particular closure with a "bull" is actually a bike.
The tour of the White closure keeps the original layout for decades.
The bulls run through the old part of town in the plain of the Segura, with its streets of most history and tradition.
The final arrival occurs in the Town Hall Square, which has placed a portable bullring which includes a corral where the bulls remain until the start of the bullfights, which take place over the next three days.
It is believed that the custom was born closure of the transfer from animals to people when carried on foot to be fought during the festivities in honor of San Roque.
The closure is a holiday celebrated throughout the day, although the release of the bulls takes place at 17:00.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Blanca
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