Different Ways Of Bullfighting With The Cape: El Farol

The members of the matador’s team and the matador face the bull with the cape. In the first two stages of the bullfight, the cape is used to “situar en suerte”, in other words, to take the bull to an ideal spot to be jabbed by the Picador and to be stabbed in the neck with the “Banderillas”.
But the bullfighter also uses the cape artistically. There is a wide range of ways of using it. One of them is El Farol
El Farol is attributed to Manuel Domínguez, who succeeded with it in Madrid on May 13, 1855 . In it’s initial phase is similar to the Veronica, but at the moment of removing the cape from the face of the bull the bullfighter lifted it, turn it over his head and then put it back to its first position.