Старейшая арена для корриды The oldest bullfighting arena

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Contrary to popular belief, the origin of bullfighting is not Spanish - deadly games with wild bulls were still in ancient Crete. In Spain, bullfighting appeared with the completion of the Reconquista in the 15th century. For eight centuries of wars with the Moors, a knighthood was formed, which only knew how to fight for the return of Christianity to the Iberian Peninsula. With the fall of the Moorish Granada, the knights needed another occupation, and bullfighting came in handy here. Initially, it was a kind of knightly tournaments.

Bullfighting in Spain is not popular everywhere, in Catalonia it is already banned, and in Galicia there are not even bullfighting arenas, there are few fans of the cruel spectacle. The popularity of bullfighting in the rest of Spain is still great, but there are gradually more tourists among the spectators than Spaniards!

The oldest is the arena in Ronda in the southwest of Andalusia - it was opened in 1785, and Ronda itself is considered the birthplace of the Spanish bullfight.
Knowledge of bullfighting, gleaned from a purely French operetta called "Carmen", has nothing to do with reality. The theme of bullfighting was introduced into the libretto for the sake of exoticism, in Mé rimé e's short story bullfighting does not appear, just as there is no Escamillo there, and the famous verses of the bullfighter during his grand entrance to the delight of fans in real Spain could not be, because in those days women were not supposed to attend bullfighting , there is no word "toreador" in Spanish - it is French.