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Plaza de Toros Maestranza
Paseo de Colón
Sevilla
Andalucia
Spain
95 422 45 77
Type: Cultural Interest
Addmission Fee: 3 Euro with guided tour
Hours: 9:30 am-2 pm and 3-7 pm, on days of bullfight 9 am-3 pm
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Sevilla
Andalucia
Spain
95 422 45 77
Type: Cultural Interest
Addmission Fee: 3 Euro with guided tour
Hours: 9:30 am-2 pm and 3-7 pm, on days of bullfight 9 am-3 pm
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This is Sevilla’s “Cathedral of Bullfighting." Writers Lope de Vega and Cervantes were taken with this area in the days when its reputation as a “mariners’ neighborhood” was giving way to its reputation as a “bullfighters’ neighborhood.” The bullring is one of Spain’s two most celebrated, the other being in Ronda. Both maintain the country’s best bullfighting schools.
The bullring took over 100 years to complete. To walk through its iron Prince’s Gate is a lifelong goal of many an aspiring bullfighter. Here the revered bullfighter Juan Belmonte (born just outside of Sevilla) began to revolutionize the sport. Hemingway said he could “wind a bull around him like a belt.” Rather than rely on fancy footwork to evade the charging bull (as had been the method used until then), Belmonte remained motionless and allowed the careful manipulation of his cape to deceive the bull into rushing past.
The season begins on Easter Sunday. Weekly fights become daily spectacles during the Fería de Abril and Corpus Christi, before the season ends in September with the Fería de San Miguel. Tickets range from 7 Euro to 110 Euro and can be purchased at the arena at least a few days in advance, or at one of the ticket offices on C/ Sierpes or Tetuán. Scalpers will be on hand as well. The guided tour passes through the bullfighting museum and the chapel, where it is traditional for bullfighters to say a prayer before departing to slay a bull (that is, if all goes as planned).
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