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Julio Robles
Avelino Julio Robles Hernández (; 4 December 1951 – 14 January 2001), usually known as Julio Robles, was a Spanish bullfighter whose career in Spain's bullrings was cut short by a life-altering injury during a bullfight. He went on to become a bull breeder for the last few years of his life, maintaining a link to his foremost passion even after losing most of his motor functions. Early life Although Robles was born in Fontiveros, Ávila, at the young age of five, he moved with his father, who was a court secretary, to La Fuente de San Esteban, Salamanca, and always thought if himself as Salamancan. His new home was in a rural district and there were a great many ''ganaderías'', or bull ranches, nearby. There, his enthusiasm for the fighting bulls grew. In his adolescence, he would sneak into the town's slaughterhouses to "fight" the calves that were to be slaughtered. He also went to the various bullfights that were held on bull ranches in the area, many times on his bicycle, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fontiveros
Fontiveros is a municipality in Spain in the Ávila province, in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It comprises an area of approximately 2 square kilometers and according to the 2011 census ( INE), the municipality has a population of 173 inhabitants. It is famous for being the birthplace of Saint John of the Cross St. John of the Cross (; ; né Juan de Yepes y Álvarez; 24 June 1542 – 14 December 1591) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest, mystic, and Carmelite friar of ''Converso'' ancestry. He is a major figure of the Counter-Reformation in Spain, .... References *Community website Municipalities in the Province of Ávila {{Ávila-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barcelona
Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits,Barcelona: Población por municipios y sexo – Instituto Nacional de Estadística. (National Statistics Institute) its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the province of Barcelona and is home to around 5.3 million people, making it the fifth most populous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seville Fair
The Seville Fair (officially and in , 'Seville April Fair') is held in the Andalusian capital of Seville, Spain. The fair generally begins two weeks after the , or Easter Holy Week. The fair officially begins at midnight on Monday, and runs six days, ending on the following Sunday. Each day the festival, fiesta begins with the parade of carriages and riders, at midday, carrying Seville's leading citizens which make their way to the bullring, , where the bullfighters and breeders meet. For the duration of the fair, the fairgrounds and a vast area on the far bank of the Guadalquivir River are totally covered in rows of (individual decorated Marquee (tent), marquee tents which are temporarily built on the fairground). These usually belong to prominent families of Seville, groups of friends, clubs, trade associations and political parties. From around nine at night until six or seven the following morning, at first in the streets and later only within each , there are crowds party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maestranza (Seville)
The Plaza de Toros de la Real Maestranza de Caballería de Sevilla is a 12,000-capacity bullring in Seville, Spain. During the annual Seville Fair in Seville, it is the site of one of the most well-known bullfighting festivals in the world. It is a part of the Real Maestranza de Caballería de Sevilla, a noble guild established for traditional cavalry training. The ring itself is considered one of the city's most enjoyable tourist attractions and is certainly one of the most visited. As a stage for bullfighting, it is considered one of the world's most challenging environments because of its history, characteristics, and viewing public, which is considered one of the most unforgiving in all of bullfighting fandom. History Construction began in 1749 of a circular ring on Baratillo Hill to replace the rectangular bullring that was previously located there. In 1761, the construction began to incorporate ''ochavas'' (each ''ochava'' being equivalent to four arches). At this early s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muleta
A muleta is a stick with a red cloth hanging from itmuleta' in the Diccionario de la Real Academia. that is used in the final third ('' tercio de muleta'' or ''de muerte'') of a bullfight. It is different from the cape used by the matador earlier in the fight (''capote de brega''). The muleta obscures the sword; and as in his earlier work with the cape, the bullfighter uses it to attract the bull in a series of passes, thus demonstrating his control over it. The red color of the muleta is actually irrelevant since bulls are dichromatic, meaning neither the cape nor the muleta color can be accurately discerned by the bull. The color is retained merely for tradition. There are a number of distinct styles of pass, each with its own name. With the cape for instance, the verónica is a pass in which the matador slowly swings the cape away from the charging bull while keeping his feet in the same position. The faena is the final series of passes before the kill in which the matador ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pepe Luis Vázquez Silva
José Luis Vázquez Silva (; 9 June 1957 – 26 July 2024), better known as Pepe Luis Vázquez (), the same name that his father had used professionally, was a Spanish bullfighter, the youngest in a bullfighting "dynasty" in Seville that stretches back to the nineteenth century. Early life Vázquez was born on 9 June 1957, the eldest of what would eventually be seven siblings from the marriage between Pepe Luis Vázquez Garcés and Mercedes Silva Giménez. By the time when Vázquez was born into this bullfighting family, his father had retired from bullfighting but in 1959, when the younger Pepe was two years old, the elder Pepe went back to the bullring for one season. Since Vázquez Garcés was one of Spain's most celebrated bullfighters, even eventually being named one of the twentieth century's ten most important, bullfighting was a pervasive influence in the Vázquez household. Nevertheless, the two-year-old's mother was determined to keep him, and all her other children, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curro Romero
Francisco Romero López (; born 1 December 1933), better known as Curro Romero (), and nicknamed ''El Faraón de Camas'' ("The Pharaoh of Camas"), is a Spanish bullfighter. He began his professional career in his hometown's La Pañoleta neighbourhood on 22 August 1954, together with José Martínez Limeño. Early life Curro Romero was born on 1 December 1933 (although at least one source says 4 December 1933) in the Andalusian town of Camas into a very humble family. There, Romero lived at his uncle's house on the Calle de la Cruz, a narrow little laneway that was cold and damp. His father, who was a fancier of flamenco as well as bullfighting, worked at the fish market, spending nights in the ''Barranco de la Pañoleta'' ("Headscarf Gully") gathering and preparing fish. His mother Andrea worked, too, at Mr. Barea's olive warehouse. Despite the drawbacks of living in this way, however, neither he nor his sisters (the elder one María; the younger one Buendía) ever went hungry. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Mari Manzanares
José María Dols Abellán (; 14 April 1953 – 28 October 2014), known professionally as José Mari Manzanares () was a Spanish bullfighter, son of the banderillero Pepe Dols (''Pepe Manzanares'') and father of José María Dols Samper, likewise a bullfighter. Early life Manzanares was born in Alicante's Santa Cruz neighbourhood. He went to school in the city of his birth, where he also worked as a child at a warehouse. His parents were José María Dols y Cantó, a banderillero and worker at the Port of Alicante, and María Abellán y Sánchez. While still very young, Manzanares learnt the basics of bullfighting not only from his father, but also from some early experiences at the bullring and some training. Bullfighting career Manzanares donned the suit of lights – this one in white and silver – for the first time in Andújar in 1969, facing together with Nelson Vilegas yearling bulls bearing the Francisco Sánchez brand. He had fought at 15 such engagement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoñete
Antonio Chenel Albadalejo (; 24 June 1932 – 22 October 2011), professionally and popularly known as Antoñete (), was a Spanish bullfighter. His family had no background in bullfighting beyond Antoñete's father having been a ''monosabio'' (a picador's assistant). Antoñete himself explained that his maternal surname should really be Albaladejo, rather than Albadalejo. The transposition of two of the letters in this name arose from bureaucratic carelessness when his Documento Nacional de Identidad (Spain), National Identity Document was issued. Early life Born in Madrid, right near Spain's foremost bullring, Las Ventas, Antoñete spent the Spanish Civil War in the country's east once the Spanish mint (facility), mint had transferred its operations to Valencia; his father was a mint employee. The family later moved to Castellón de la Plana, also on the Costa del Azahar and, once the fighting was over, to Alicante. They moved back to Madrid in 1940 when Antoñete was eight yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valencia
Valencia ( , ), formally València (), is the capital of the Province of Valencia, province and Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Valencian Community, the same name in Spain. It is located on the banks of the Turia (river), Turia, on the east coast of the Iberian Peninsula on the Mediterranean Sea. It is the Ranked lists of Spanish municipalities, third-most populated municipality in the country, with 825,948 inhabitants. The urban area of Valencia has 1.5 million people while the metropolitan region has 2.5 million. Valencia was founded as a Roman Republic, Roman colony in 138 BC as '. As an autonomous city in late antiquity, its militarization followed the onset of the threat posed by the Spania, Byzantine presence to the South, together with effective integration to the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo in the late 6th century. Al-Andalus, Islamic rule and acculturation ensued in the 8th century, together with the introduction of new irrigation syst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valladolid
Valladolid ( ; ) is a Municipalities of Spain, municipality in Spain and the primary seat of government and ''de facto'' capital of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Castile and León. It is also the capital of the province of Valladolid. It has a population of 300,618 people (2024 est.). The city is located roughly in the centre of the northern half of the Iberian Peninsula's Meseta Central, at the confluence of the Pisuerga River, Pisuerga and Esgueva rivers before they join the Duero, surrounded by winegrowing areas. The area was settled in pre-Roman times by the Celtic Vaccaei people, and then by Ancient Rome, Romans themselves. The settlement was purportedly founded after 1072, growing in prominence within the context of the Crown of Castile, being endowed with fairs and different institutions such as a collegiate church, University of Valladolid, University (1241), Court (royal), Royal Court and Royal Audiencia and Chancillería of Valladolid, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Bienvenida
Antonio Mejías Jiménez (; 25 June 1922 – 7 October 1975), better known as Antonio Bienvenida (), was a Venezuelan-born Spanish bullfighter who belonged to the Bienvenida bullfighting dynasty. Eleven times he came out, borne on his fellow bullfighters' shoulders, through the Great Gate at Las Ventas (a great honour in the bullfighting world) as one of the most important bullfighting figures of the 1950s. Among bullfighting aficionados, the Bienvenida dynasty has been one of the most glorious in tauromachy's history. It was founded by Manuel Mejías Rapela Bienvenida, nicknamed ''"El Papa Negro"'' ("The Black Pope"), itself a nickname for the superior general of the Society of Jesus, and in this case, it was meant to distinguish him from the head of the bullfighting "church", Ricardo Torres Reina "Bombita". Early life Owing to his father Manuel Mejías Rapela's bullfighting profession, Bienvenida was born in Caracas. Shortly thereafter, his family moved to Seville, where Bienv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
