Both Madrid’s towns inaugurate the bullfighting season of 2017
January is ending and that means that it’s almost time for the bullfighting season to begin. The towns of Ajalvir and Valdemorillo in Madrid, with just a week of difference, are in charge of starting the annual appointment. Both have presented their fairs these past days.
Although it’s true that occasionally takes place a previous festival across the Spanish geography, Ajalvir is the earliest date of the calendar. It celebrates the Fair of San Blas and this year it does with two festivities: Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 January. The bullfighters Sánchez Vara (habitual of this fair), César Valencia and the Colombian Jose Arcila, will fight bulls of D. Alberto Mateos. On Sunday, however, a mixed celebration will take place, with four bulls of Orellana Perdiz for the bullfighters Alberto Álvarez and Andrés Palacios and two steers of D. Antonio López Gibaja for Amor Rodríguez, born in Madrid.
The two days are held the traditional morning bull runnings.
The next weekend, Valdemorillo continues the bullfighting season with its Fair of La Candelaria and San Blas, specifically from 4 to 6 February. This year it’s a tribute to the deceased bullfighter Víctor Barrio, who was its winner in 2015. And the company of the Plaza de Toros, with Tomás Entero commanding, recovers the steer’s bullfight and leaves out the bullfighting with horses. Saturday 4 El Cid, Paulita and Fandiño will face the bulls of Monte la Ermita; and Sunday 5 the bullfighters Cristian Escribano, Martín Escudero and Posada de Maravillas will do the same with bulls of D. Antonio López Gibaja. The steer´s bullfight of Monday 6 is from Gómez Morales fighting bull ranch and will bullfight it Fernando Flores, Andy Younes and Santiago Sánchez-Mejía.
The indoor plaza of La Candelaria, inaugurated in 2003, makes the low temperatures typical of these dates an invalid excuse for not going to Valdemorillo’s Fair.
Inside of La Candelaria.
