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Resumo

The current Spanish Historical Heritage Law of 1985 is not enough to protect our Intangible CulturalHeritage, causing the enactment of Law 10/2015, of Intangible Cultural Heritage, highlighting as such theuses, representations, expressions, knowledge and techniques that communities, groups and in some casesindividuals, recognize as an integral part of their cultural heritage. Bullfighting is presented as one of themost deeply rooted cultural phenomena in Spanish tradition. However, considering it as intangible culturalheritage does not cease to be a widely debated issue in our country, especially recently, despite the approvalof Law 18/2013, of November 12, for the regulation of bullfighting as cultural heritage, and the autonomousregulations that recognize its protection in this sense through action of public authorities.This paper has been developed taking into account the requirements made by the 2003 UNESCOConvention on the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, which bullfighting must necessarily fulfilin order to be expressly recognised as intangible cultural heritage, as well as Spanish regulations,jurisprudence and doctrine, and allusions to comparative law on the subject.