Plaza de Toros La Malagueta
Sixteen-sided brick amphitheatre built as a near-perfect circle for unbroken sightlines to the sand.
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This guide to Plaza de Toros La Malagueta in Malaga follows architect Joaquin Rucoba's struggle to finish a bullring left half-built since December 1874, amid Spain's political turmoil. It centers on the puzzle he worked out on paper long before a single brick was laid: how to seat thousands of spectators around a ring of sand so that everyone could actually see. Work resumed in October 1875, and Rucoba dressed the finished building in Neo-Mudejar style, with horseshoe arches and bare red brick. Walk the perimeter and try to spot where one straight wall ends and the next begins.
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