Street art
An evening stroll in Sommières in Southern France may be interrupted by the odd bull and Gardiens (horesemen/women)
(L'encierro : Bulls run freely in the main street but all the other streets are blocked off)
In the River (Vidourle) is used to display horsemanship, wet bulls and wet Gardiens (male and female!)
The bulls are kept in a tight V of horses...and ....
... raced around the river bed and
....into deeper water...
.. a couple of gardiens maintain the rear of the V of horses. In an attempt (sometimes unsuccessfully) to keep the bulls in. Pictures of a bull running at me are not available... I was moving (quickly) out of the way!!!!
Another run with the bulls (one of which got away)
Saturday exercises for the horses in Sommières
In the sild (Camargue)
Sommières - the Roman Bridge
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