Oh, to go to a bullfight in Ronda

 

Roca Rey dedicates one of his bulls to someone en el palco - Ronda

 

Plaza de toros Ronda

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Here is the photo I used for the header of my blog which is inside of the Plaza in Ronda.

I will get here someday

A couple of nice photos of the Plaza de Toros de Ronda

(photos from thewanderblogger.com)

https://www.thewanderblogger.com/plaza-de-toros-de-ronda/

The beauty of Ronda

37th exhibition of tradition horse-drawn coaches in the beautiful Plaza de Toros de Ronda.

Ronda

Ronda

(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.