as "At war for the land!" The only bull in
Catalonia, in the municipality of
El Bruc, was toppled on 12 October 2002 by people who identified themselves as
Catalan independentists, protesting against what they considered a symbol of
Spanish nationalism. On 3 August 2007, barely a week after the bull had been restored, Catalan independentists toppled it again. Then in March 2008, residents of the town of
Masquefa restored the bull once again, only to see it ultimately demolished by the independentists less than a year later, on 24 February 2009. A bull in the
Galician municipality of
Trasmiras was painted orange in January 2008, as a protest against symbols of Spanish nationalism. In January 2009, a bull in the
Valencian municipality of
Tavernes de la Valldigna was destroyed in a storm with wind gusts approaching . The company rebuilt it in October. In December 2016, the bull was knocked down in strong winds again, this time after vandals sawed through its lower supports. It was restored again in June 2017. Vandals again sawed through the supports, and the bull succumbed again to strong winds on 29 April 2018. The only bull in
Mallorca is often vandalized by graffiti artists or independentist or other movements. It is a frequent target of Catalan separatist groups. On 13 April 2007, the bull was painted in the colors of the
LGBT rainbow flag and had its
testicles removed, and remained that way for weeks before it was restored. And then, within the same month, vandals painted it with multicolor flowers. It was the target of political vandalism in December 2012, when its horns and the top of its head were cut off, and again in October 2019. The bull, covered in graffiti and in a general state of disrepair, succumbed to strong wind gusts in December 2021; it remained down for five months, until it suddenly and mysteriously reappeared in May 2022, still covered in graffiti. Between May 8 and 11, 2005, the artist Javier Figueredo, with the help of three assistants, transformed the bull in
Casar de Cáceres into a
Holstein cow, referred to at the time as "the Osborne cow" (). They painted white spots on the bull, put a pink bow on it, and replaced its testicles with a pink steel udder they bolted onto the frame. Figueredo said at the time that he did it to spark more cultural interest in the region. The local authorities charged him with vandalism. On 18 May 2017, as a protest against
bullfighting, the urban artist Sam3 reproduced
Picasso's
Guernica on the bull in the
Alicante town of
Santa Pola. Over the course of one night in late May 2022, an unknown artist and three assistants painted a bull in
A Limia sky blue, which caused it to seemingly disappear into the sky at certain times of the day. (This same bull had also been painted white in 2008, which also caused it to seemingly disappear under certain lighting conditions.) Calling it an act of vandalism against private property and not a form of artistic expression, by late July Osborne had repainted the bull black. ==In popular culture==