Bulls of Guisando

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The Bulls of Guisando

The Bulls of Guisando (Spanish: Toros de Guisando) are a set of celtiberian sculptures located on the hill of Guisando in the municipality of El Tiemblo, Ávila, Spain. The sculptures, made of granite, represent [[quadruped]s identified as bulls or pigs are believed to have been made during the second century BC.

The field around the Bulls was the place where the Treaty of the Bulls of Guisando was signed between Henry IV of Castile and his half-sister Isabella of Castille on September 18, 1468, which granted her the title of Princess of Asturias thus ending a civil war in Castile.

The Bulls are also a recurrent feature in Spanish literature. For instance, Miguel de Cervantes quotes several times throughout the Quixote.^[1] Federico García Lorca uses their symbolic value in his Llanto por la muerte de Ignacio Sánchez Mejías:

...y los toros de Guisando,

casi muerte y casi piedra,

mugieron como dos siglos

hartos de pisar la tierra

...and the bulls of Guisando

partly death and partly stone

bellowed like two centuries

tired of threading the earth