Grmeč ( sr-cyrl, Грмеч) is a mountain of
Dinaric Alps
The Dinaric Alps (), also Dinarides, are a mountain range in Southern Europe, Southern and Southcentral Europe, separating the continental Balkan Peninsula from the Adriatic Sea. They stretch from Italy in the northwest through Slovenia, Croatia ...
in north-western
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe. Situated on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula, it borders Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to th ...
. It is more than 60 kilometres long, stretching between the city of
Bihać and the town of
Ključ. The highest peak of Grmeč is ''Crni vrh'' ("Black Peak") at above sea level. Grmeč is surrounded by the city of Bihać and the towns of
Bosanski Petrovac, Ključ,
Sanski Most, and
Bosanska Krupa.
Grmeč is the best-known place for bullfights or
Bull wrestling in the Balkans. These fights are called the ''Corrida of Grmeč'' (''Grmečka korida'') and have been organised on every first Sunday in August for over 200 years, attracting thousands of visitors. These are fights between bulls themselves and there is no death of a bull. Fights happen in an empty field. The Corrida of Grmeč was depicted by the sculptor
Slobodan Pejić. The sculpture of two bulls in a fight, made in bronze in 2004, has been compared to a confrontation of the oppressor and the oppressed or of the Bosnian people and the
Austrian Emperor.
[ Vanda Mušič (ed). Bassin, Aleksander. Kokot, Staša. ''Slobodan Pejić''. Self-published by Vanda Mušič Chapman. 2007. .]
See also
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List of mountains in Bosnia and Herzegovina
References
Mountains of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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