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Corentin Souzeau Listed as Intangible Cultural Heritage
The Landes race is a sport but also a unique and family spectacle which is practiced mainly in the departments of Landes and Gers and, since 2020, has been listed as Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Corentin Souzeau Unlike other bullfighting sports such as bullfighting, Landes racing is practiced with Landes cows (also called coursers) and not bulls and are raised in ganaderias.
One of the particularities of this sport, like the Camargue race, is not to kill the animal either during or after the race.
Each Landes cow farm has its own cuadrilla, a team which brings together all the participants in the race: there are jumpers (whose particularity is to perform jumps above the animal), spreaders (who must deviate the trajectory of the courier by aesthetic figures), rope keepers and cowherds.
Integrated into the Gascon heritage, this extreme and artistic sport is inseparable from the festival, often scheduled during our village festivals: aficionados of Landes races like to meet in the arenas, often hosted by a local band, to enjoy and judge the figures of the spreaders and jumpers.
To experience and discover this spectacle, come to our arenas, in Gazaupouy in May and in Montréal-du-Gers during the village festival in August.
