murcia bullfighting museum

BULLFIGHTING MUSEUM
Calle Francisco Rabal, 3. Jardín del Salitre. Tel.: 968 285 976
OPENING TIMES
From Monday to Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.
to 8:00 p.m. Sundays and Public Holidays from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
JULY AND AUGUST
From Monday to Friday from 10:0 0 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.
to 8:00 p.m. Closed Saturdays and Sundays.
BULLFIGHTING
MUSEUM
thy of note is the traditional “Bullfighting Tuesday”,
during which conferences, round-tables, lectures,
bullfighting films and recitals of poetry and popular
song are presented. Also, each year in the September
fair, the so-called “Bullfighting Appetizers” are held.
Organised with the backing of Murcia City Council,
these events include talks in which stockbreeders,
bullfighters and renowned bullfighting critics and
writers take part.
Today, its headquarters is a building constructed in
1920, within the city’s Jardín del Salitre, but it has
had to change the venue for its social engagements
on nine occasions, beginning with the legendary
“Casa del Tío Ginés”.
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THE BULLFIGHTING
CLUB
MURCIA
BULLFIGHTING
MUSEUM
Tourist Information Office
Plaza Cardenal Belluga. Edificio Ayuntamiento. 30004 Murcia. España
e-mail: [email protected]
Tel. 968 358 749 • Fax 968 358 748
www.turismodemurcia.es
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On the same day the La Condomina bullring was inaugurated, what is today the
doyen of the world’s bullfighting clubs
was created, with the involvement of a
handful of enthusiasts, presided over
by Don Ginés Riquelme.
During its more than one hundred year
history, the Murcia Bullfighting Club
has organised many bullfighting-related celebrations and events: countless
bullfights and training fights, social
gatherings, weekly radio broadcasts and
regular participation in the main popular festivities and events of Murcia. Of
all these, perhaps the event most wor-
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project for a new bullring on land owned by the
La Condomina district, to the east of the city.
The building phase lasted for eleven months, and
the bullring we see today was inaugurated on September 6th 1887, with a splendid presentation: bulls
from Doña María Dolores Monje’s stock farm faced
the matadors Rafael Molina Lagartijo, Murcia-born
Juan Ruiz Lagartija and Luis Mazzantini.
During its early years, La Condomina, which
was the name given to the bullring, was the
largest in Spain, and it would go down in
history as the first bullring to be considered a historic monument.
THE BULLFIGHTING MUSEUM
Poster marking the
inauguration of the La
Condomina Bullring. 1887.
In its interior, the club houses a Bullfighting Museum, the collection of which includes paintings,
graphic art, textiles, equipment and objects, historical documents and contemporary art works, including: the heads of the most important bulls to
have passed through La Condomina; a collection of
30 wall posters, dating from 1887 to 1913; a collection, unique in Spain, of more than 30 tambourines
painted by Murcia-born artists; more than 300
posters dating from 1830 to 1935, many of which
are made from coloured silk, covering an important
period in the history of bullfighting; suits of lights;
ceremonial capelets; picador jackets; banderillas
(de fuego, ordinarias, de lujo, divisas, puyas, etc.).
The Murcia Bullfighting Club,
the antiquity of which has
been acknowledged with both
Gold and Silver Medals from
Spain’s Royal Bullfighting Federation, also boasts an extensive library and well-stocked
video library, as well as a
spacious café with a terrace,
where visitors can sample our
broad range of regional dishes.