In 1956, the Osborne Group, a company dedicated to wines and spirits, placed a billboard in the shape of a bull on the Madrid-Burgos highway. That silhouette, fourteen meters high, had been designed to advertise Veterano brandy. Two years later, the bull expanded to the different roads of the State. The popularity of this animal was so great that, today, it is still a national symbol. For three generations, the idea that the bull is the animal that best represents Spain has been installed in the Spanish collective consciousness. This animal has transcended Spanish culture and symbolism so much that, even in 2017, the Supreme Court had to clarify that the bull is not an official symbol of the State. Even so, very often we still see bovine stickers on cars. In this article, we will see that this animal is much more than a brandy brand or a Spanish nationalist icon. The bull is a living animal in our language, toponymy, and popular parlance. So much so that we could say that the bull also has a Catalan root.

The Osborne bull of Algaida has recovered its original appearance, all black, after it appeared on Tuesday painted with the flag of PalestineThe restoration, which took just a few days, is the second this year, as the figure was graffitied last February reading "Rich foreign property buyers go to hell."