Flamenco is a genre of music and dance which has its foundation in Andalusian music and dance and in whose evolution Andalusian Gypsies and Sephardic Jewish influence played an important part. The cante or singing, the toque or guitar playing, the dance and palmas or handclaps are the principal facets of flamenco. In recent years flamenco has become popular all over the world and is taught in many countries. In 2010, UNESCO declared Flamenco one of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. The songs of flamenco are from different regions: Fandangos from Huelva; Alegrias from Cadiz; etc. There are two main styles in Flamenco: "jondo" - the serious and deep meaning, the cry of oppressed people; and "chico" - happy, light and often humorous. The ideal in flamenco is called "duende" or demon / elf, which is a state of emotional involvement, group communication at a deep level and a feeling of sympathy, between musicians, dancers and listeners. Bull fighting. The spectacle of bullfighting has existed in one form or another since ancient days. For example, a contest of some sort is depicted in a wall painting unearthed at Knossos in Crete, dating from about 2000 BC. It shows male and female acrobats confronting a bull, grabbing its horns as it charges, and vaulting over its back. Bullfights were popular spectacles in ancient Rome, but it was in the Iberian Peninsula that these contests were fully developed. The Moors from North Africa who overran Andalusia in AD 711 changed bullfighting significantly from the brutish, formless spectacle practised by the conquered Visigoths to a ritualistic occasion observed in connection with feast days, on which the conquering Moors, mounted on highly trained horses, confronted and killed the bulls. As bullfighting developed, the men on foot, who by their capework aided the horsemen in positioning the bulls, began to draw more attention from the crowd, and the modern corrida began to take form. Today the bullfight is much the same as it has been since about 1726, when Francisco Romero of Ronda, Spain, introduced the estoque or sword and the muleta, which is the small, more easily wielded worsted cape used in the last part of the fight. The modern corrida is highly ritualized, with three distinct stages or tercios ("thirds"), and it requires deep knowledge of the subject to be understood....