General information
Program details
You can follow your own pace as you visit the different areas of the complex. See the
tendons (the bleachers), the arena, the pens where the bulls wait before entering the ring and where the matadors build up their courage, the infirmary, the
Puerta Grande - where the fighters dream of being carried out aloft after a successful
corrida - and the souvenir shop.
Built-in neo-Mudejar between 1929 and 1931, Las Ventas has a capacity for almost 24,000 fans, making it the third-largest bullring in the world. It has witnessed some of the most dramatic fights in history, with fewer than 100 matadors earning the right to leave by the Puerta Grande. Over the decades, illustrious bullfighting aficionados such as Ernest Hemingway and Orson Welles made the yearly pilgrimage to this Mecca for the corridas.
PRIVATE TOUR
The tour will be as follows (subject to possible modifications):
Puerta Grande. Terraces and tendidos. Ruedo. Dragging gate. Chapel. Puerta de cuadrillas. Shop. Museum
Duration: 55 minutes
PRIVATE TOUR + BULLFIGHTING.
This activity also includes a demonstration. The demonstration consists of a complete simulation of bullfighting by students of different ages from the Madrid Bullfighting School. It is a small exhibition of their daily training to prepare for a bullfight. Thanks to this demonstration, visitors will discover the different suertes of the capote, banderillas and muleta. At the end of the activity, they will be able to practice with the bullfighting equipment themselves.
Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes
Languages
Multilingual guide in English, Spanish, Italian, French, Japanese, German, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, and Korean.
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