Francisco Camino Sánchez at his baptism, Paco Camino on the posters and ‘the Wise Boy of Camas‘ in the collective imagination. Three identifications for the same legend. Which will be recognized posthumously with the Bullfighting Award from the Seville City Councilbarely three months after that heart that beat at such a low frequency in front of the Santa Colomeño bulls of Joaquín Buendía stopped in a kind of volapié to posterity. A recognition that comes as an epilogue after that final chapter with a flourish of the last farewell to his native Camas, with the multitudinous gratitude and admiration shown by his countrymen and the fans of Seville. That it was his land and that he ended up recognizing it as what it had always been: the leading figure in bullfighting. Of all times, for all tastes.
Paco Camino a Camas had returned last July 30 to be watched in a burning chapel through which many of his peers passed: Manuel Benítez ‘El Cordobés’, Curro Romero or José Tomás. Also legends like this ‘Wise Boy of Camas’ who the day before had dressed in perpetual and gold at a hospital in Navalmoral de la Mata, near his farm ‘Los Caminos’ in Arenas de San Pedro (Ávila).
Consecrated with a dozen exits on shoulders through the main door of Las Ventaswas one of the great legends in the history of bullfighting, as idolized in Spain as in America, especially in Mexico. A great figure of the sixties and seventies, he marked a stage and the Path that so many subsequent generations wanted to follow. He was the great reference of the total fight: from silk to steel, without having to take the flags. His was the class a la verónica, the signature in the chicuelinas, the power and elegance in the muleta and the categorical luck of killing.
In the afternoon of 4 June 1970 who signed the great milestone in his career with those eight ears cuts from the seven bulls that he fought alone in the Veneto bullring. ‘The romantic echo of Paco Camino‘, which he titled on the pages of ABC Antonio Díaz Cañabate, It had a resonance for the entire history of bullfighting. The bullfighter from Camas had lived in his home for decades. ‘Los Caminos’ estate in Arenas de San Pedro (Ávila)where for years he was raising brave cattle of Marquis de Domecq and Santa Coloma origin, a blood that few understood as he did.
The Bullfighting Prize of the Seville City Council
The Seville City Council now recognizes it with lto the IX edition of the Seville Bullfighting Prizewhich will be collected by their families at the end of this year, 2024. It is therefore the total recovery of an award that had been missed during the socialist government of the previous municipal mandate, especially influenced by that government agreement signed years ago with Participa Seville – germ of Podemos in the Seville City Council.
As stated in the rules of the Seville City Council Bullfighting Award, this award is intended to recognize professionals or institutions that have stood out in their careers in relation to the bullfighting festival. It should be remembered that this award was inaugurated with the posthumous recognition to Pepe Luis Vázquez in 2013, followed by Curro Romero in 2014, Miquel Barcelo In 2016, the Bullfighting Studies Foundation In 2017, the city of Arles In 2018, the livestock of miura in 2019 and Fernando Savater in 2020 and Juan Antonio Ruiz ‘Spartacus’ in 2023.
#Paco #Camino #Bullfighting #Prize #Seville #City #Council #posthumously
