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Every May 16, Gallito accompanied the paseíllo in Las Ventas as a memory of Joselito on the anniversary of his death. The pasodoble has rumbled this Saturday on the stones of the Monumental empty because of the pandemic. San Isidro is canceled but the tradition remains in place for the centenary of the regicide in Talavera. The Bailaor bull made the eternal bullfighter eternal. "The bullfighting center of the Community of Madrid has wanted to continue a tradition that began in 1921" , reported the Bullfighting Center, sounding the pasodoble in the speakers of the first bullring in the world.

It will be the only official act that can be dedicated in Madrid to the figure of the Sevillian bullfighter. The short list will not be able to "parade unmounted" and this time there will be a minute of double passage instead of a minute of silence: "This custom has been broken twice, in the 1987 and 1990 seasons , when the celebrations had to be suspended because of of rain".

The Community of Madrid has decided to maintain "this beautiful tradition" in a year in which it had programmed a schedule of functions to commemorate the century of his death, ruined by the pandemic. Among them, "the great exhibition on the bullfighter and his legacy". The artist Diego Ramos was summoned with three works: "It was an opportunity to pay tribute to a bullfighter who always aroused my admiration. Exposing alongside masters such as Benlliure, Benedito or Roberto Domingo, in whose work I always dived, meant a lot," he said. Zabala de la Serna.

Gallito has been present in the arena as if he had once again walked the bullring alone, from which he was fired the day before the tragedy. "Pasodoble, by Santiago Lope, was composed in 1904 for Fernando Gómez Gallito Chico , bullfighter and older brother of Joselito", who appropriated the memory. "He has always been identified with the piece of music."

The fans have also dedicated the day in Seville to remembering the figure of the bullfighter. The vestige of the monumental Seville that prompted the phenomenon of Gelves - "was the driving force behind modern bullfighting" - has been filled with flowers, a tribute promoted by the Puerta Carmona Bullfighting Cultural Circle. Various associations, fans and the Popular Party have deposited their crowns. Like Morante de la Puebla, who has brought a bouquet to the San Fernando cemetery, where the Benlliure mausoleum is. "Thank you, master," wrote the genius of La Puebla in his offering.

On November 24 "a statue of Joselito will be discovered in Seville in front of the Macarena arch," Paco Aguado, author of the biography El rey de los toreros , reissued this year by El paseo , explained to this newspaper . An initiative promoted by the brotherhood, to which the bullfighter was linked. "There is no harm in lasting a hundred years. He was the last great bullfighter without a statue in the city." Not counting the flowers for Gallito, "it will be the only act that can be done this year of all those who had planned for the centenary. At least Gallito has sounded in the world capital of bullfighting.

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