José Miguel Arruego

I was born an amateur and ended up being a journalist. I grew up watching bullfighting in Madrid, but I learnt about bullfighting in the bullring of any village. There, where my chronicles do not reach, but where I feed my soul. Once I had to give a news item that I never imagined I would give, but that day I understood that I had become a professional.

Ciudad Real reopens its bullring with a top-notch lineup

An awe-inspiring bullfighting extravaganza awaits at the grand re-opening of the Ciudad Real bullring. The crème de la crème of bullfighters will grace the event on April 28th.

San Pedro Regalado: The fair that honours the patron saint of bullfighters

Valladolid announces a mini-feria of great category in May. The top bullfighting stars and the most promising bullfighters of the land to honour the patron saint of the city, who is also the patron saint of bullfighters. Here you have the best arguments to spend the best bullfighting weekend on the banks of the Pisuerga.

Bullfights in April at Las Ventas in Madrid

The bullring of Las Ventas announces its programme for Sundays in April. Come to the bulls before San Isidro. There are good reasons. And plenty of them. Come in and discover them.

Seville 2024: Reasons not to miss the April Fair

Seville’s impressive line-up makes it one of the most desirable bullfighting fairs of the season in Spain. Roca Rey will face “Victorinos” for the first time on April 13th, Daniel Luque will face “La Quinta” on April 18th and Morante’s 3 afternoons make it a very attractive event.

Brihuega: The social and cultural event of 'La Corrida de Primavera' (Spring Bullfight)

The charming bullring, known as La Muralla, holds one of the most unique events in the bullfighting calendar every April: La Corrida de Primavera (Spring Bullfight). This is one of the most important bullfighting events in the province.

San Isidro 2024. The alternative confirmations

Up to five bullfighters will ratify their doctorate in the next Feria de San Isidro, one of the editions with more youth representatives in recent years. Do you want to know their careers and trajectories?

La Picassiana, a unique bullfighting experience at Easter in Malaga

The latest edition of the Feria de la Magdalena brings together all kinds of ingredients to add flavour and colour to the stew. The figures, bullfighters of art, promising bullfighters, and even a bullfight by Victorino, make the La Plana festival a menu that is hard to turn down.

Castellón 2024: A Fair to dream about

Fallas Fair 2024: A fair with identity

It is the first season’s first first bullring season ticket, and in 2024 it has left no one indifferent. Here we show you the coordinates of the Feria de Fallas 2024, a series that, according to the impresario himself, Rafael García Garrido “is a source of pride for the Valencians”.

Olivenza Fair 2024: true to style

Once again this year, Olivenza gets up early. And it does so with a fair that responds to the idiosyncrasy of its philosophy. Figures, promises, spectacle and competition: Find out about it

History of the Corrida Concurso de Ganaderías de Jerez (Jerez Bullfighting Competition)

The Corrida Concurso de Ganaderías was invented in the Jerez bullring by Álvaro Domecq and Pepe Belmonte. In this bullfight were the most prestigious bull-breeding farms

When Las Fallas became Valencia's first big cycle (and of the season)

Valencia has always been a bullfighting reference point, but in the past it was the July Fair that set the tone for the year in the east of Spain. Do you want to know when this trend was reversed? You are only a unc lik to find out

The invention of Olivenza

Olivenza is a modern fair. A cycle not related to any saint or Eucharistic festivity. But nevertheless, it has its share of miracles. Because three decades after its origin it is one of the most consolidated events on the calendar.

Zaragoza: the capital of popular festivities

The capital of Maña offers a wide range of leisure activities during the Pilar festivities, a time when the streets are filled with joy from the very day of the opening speech, and the Plaza de Toros becomes the Cathedral of the Popular festivities.

Zaragoza: The last of the first

Zaragoza is not just any stop. It is the fair that puts an end to the circuit of first class bullrings, the palenque where the stars are measured against the demands of a bull and a rigorous public like the one in Zaragoza.

Why shouldn't you miss the Autumn Fair?

It is not San Isidro, but it is a consolidated cycle in Las Ventas, each season it allows the bullfighting stars to be seen before the end of the season.

Do you know how many bullfighters who perform at the April Fair have exited through the Prince’s Gate 'Puerta del Príncipe' ?

Guess how many of the bullfighters announced at the April Fair have already exited through the Prince’s Gate. Servitoro has wanted to name them all and make a ranking so that, if you hadn’t realized yet, you become aware of the caliber of this fair. And what you’re going to miss if you stay at home.

Ricla (La Rioja): Splendour and tradition

Every year Ricla opens the bullfighting season in Aragón, and it does so with a festival that combines both category and roots. This year 2024 is no exception and the amalgam of stars, young bullfighters and promising local bullfighters has resulted in a highly interesting line-up. Discover it.

The Corrida Picassiana, the total event

Painting, music and, of course, bullfighting come together in a traditionally avant-garde spectacle. There are many bullfights. Picassian only one. And it has a date: Saturday 30 March. Come and experience it.

The Bullfighting Renaissance of Baeza. Jaen, Spain

Next Saturday 4th May the city of Baeza is hosting more than just a bullfight. A poster that transpires and oozes art on all four sides. Finished and rounded. In the birthplace of one of the most important artistic and cultural movements, the Renaissance begins in its bullring.

Madrid kicks off the season with bulls in the spotlight

Las Ventas has always been a bullring where the cult of bullfighting has been cultivated. And in 2024, the most transcendent bullring in the world of bullfighting will begin to honour its legend. Two celebrations where the totem of this rite is the main protagonist. Click and see.

Adolfo Martín and Machancoses, the stars of the Fallas 2024 populars

Valencia in Fallas is much more than just the evening festivities.

Parallel to these, there are the popular shows, which have many fans and supporters both in the city of Turia itself and in the rest of the Levante region and in many other parts of Spain. Find out about the programme for 2024 and don’t miss the event.

Valdemorillo 2024: In the heat of the figures

Valdemorillo used to be cold and sheet metal. The most intrepid would gather around the metal of a portable bullring with the intention of satisfying their hunger for bullfighting in the middle of winter. All that remains of that traditional image are the dates. Now the fans continue to flock to the mountain village, but in the warmth of the portable bullring…and the bullfighting figures.

Bullring of Illescas 2024: El Milagro is consolidated

Roca Rey and Diego Ventura are, once again, the pillars of the “miracle” of Maximino in Illescas, a fair that in almost a decade has become essential at the beginning of each season. Click here and discover the secrets of this latest edition.

Brief bullfighting history of Cantabria

Although it is a fact that bullfighting has its roots in the most ancient Mediterranean cultures, in Cantabria there are traces of this art dating back to the 16th century. This is a short and detailed account of the relationship of these lands with the ‘Arte de Cúchares’.