Art and culture
Zafra Bullring
This bullring with a capacity for 5,000 spectators is located in a town with a great bullfighting tradition.
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- Zafra Bullring
Inaugurated in 1844
Location and Contact:
- Contact person: Ayuntamiento de Zafra
- Tel.:+34 924 55 45 01
- Tel.:+34 924 55 46 01
- Fax: +34 924 55 37 55
- Email: ayuntamiento@zafra.es
- Email: secretario@ayto-zafra.com
- Website address: www.zafra.es
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This bullring with a capacity for 5,000 spectators is located in a town with a great bullfighting tradition.
This beautiful two-storey whitewashed stone and brick building was inaugurated on 18th August 1844. Zafra's bullring was erected in 1834, subsequently destroyed and rebuilt. The current building has a capacity of 5,000. The town of Zafra is also considered a "festival town" with a grand bullfighting tradition.
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- Origin:
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- 19th century
- Construction:
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- Bullring
- Period in history:
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- 19th century
- 21st century
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