With number of events in decline, many of the 1,700 venues often in city centres stand abandoned
n October 1940, Francisco Franco invited Heinrich Himmler to a bullfight at Las Ventas bullring in Madrid. It was reported that Himmler, an animal lover and architect of the Nazis’ “final solution”, was so appalled at the cruelty of the spectacle that he almost fainted.
In 2018-19, the last complete season before Covid, 2.34 million people paid to watch bullfights, compared with 15 million who attended professional football matches. After failed attempts by the local council to resuscitate the arena, it was sold and reopened in 2011 as a shopping and leisure centre designed by the British architect Richard Rogers, along with his Catalan partner Alonso Balaguer architects.
Bullfighting has a long history in Spain, with some historians dating it back to prehistoric times. It was banned in Muslim Spain and thus became a symbol of Christian resistance.
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