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Revellers catch a bull during the Vacas das Cordas celebrations, in Ponte de Lima, Portugal, 2010. This centuries-old tradition is a form of bull-running, where crowds of young men goad the bull, restrained by long ropes, as it runs through the town and down to the river. The event relives the moment when Christians turned a pagan temple, dedicated to a goddess represented by a cow, into a church. © Paulo Duarte