(borrowed from andalucia.com/ronda/plazadetoro)
Inaugurated in 1785, Ronda's Plaza de Toros is one of the oldest in Spain, younger and smaller than that at Sevilla, but home to one of Spain's most famous 'schools' of bullfighting, on foot rather than on horseback as at Jerez and Sevilla. The legendary Pedro Romero (1754-1839) is said to have killed nearly 6,000 bulls here and at other corridas (bullfights). Its most recent superhero was Antonio Ordóñez (1932-1998), fêted by his friend Ernest Hemingway in his book The Fatal Summer.
Ordóñez's sons and grandsons have also fought at Ronda, but today the Plaza de Toros is a museum, open to tourists, and used only in the spectacular September Goyesca bullfights, in which combatants dress in the manner of Goya's portraits of 18th century life in Spain.
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