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The Azores Bullfighting Ban of 1836: A Quiet Revolution
In 1836, the remote Azorean island of Terceira became the unlikely stage for a cultural clash that would ripple through Portugal's Atlantic empire. When a local magistrate banned bullfighting, he ignited a decades-long struggle between tradition and reform, church and state, and islanders and the mainland. This episode unpacks the forgotten story of the ban, the riots that followed, and the surprising role of a British naval officer in enforcing it. We follow the threads from the medieval corridas of the mainland to the unique 'tourada à corda' of the Azores, and see how a…
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