Plaza De Toros ,Spain Seasoned traveller Paul Merton begins another exclusive trek for Channel Five TV UK. Though he's staying relatively closer to home than on previous trips, the intrepid explorer discovers that there's plenty about our European neighbours that still surprises, seduces and shocks. Join him as he shows us our continent as we've never seen it before.. Paul Merton turns his attention from religion to another Spanish mainstay bullfighting. He experiences all the gore and pageantry of a bullfight but is even more impressed by the show that follows. He watches on as acrobats leap and dance around the bull and vault over its horns in a series of extraordinary moves. This remarkable sight not only wows the crowd it also ensures the bull survives. www.five.tv Bull-leaping (also taurokathapsia, from Greek ταυροκαθάψια[1]) is a motif of Middle Bronze Age figurative art, notably of Minoan Crete, but also found in Hittite Anatolia, the Levant, Bactria and the Indus Valley.[2] It is often interpreted as a depiction of a ritual performed in connection with bull worship. This ritual consists of an acrobatic leap over a bull; when the leaper grasps the bull's horns, the bull will violently jerk his head upwards giving the leaper the momentum necessary to perform somersaults and other acrobatic tricks or stunts. A similar but even more dangerous tradition of non-violent bull-leaping is practiced in some parts of Spain. Known as the Recortadores, athletes compete at <b>...</b>
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