Plaza de Toros de la Real Maestranza de Caballería de Sevilla
Oval-shaped, riverside bullring born of a mounted cavalry order that once bred its own horses.
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This guide to the Plaza de Toros de la Real Maestranza in Seville follows the Real Maestranza de Caballeria, a corporation of noblemen founded in 1670 to keep alive rejoneo, the old skill of fighting bulls from horseback, and the stables they bred to train for it. It traces King Felipe V's 1730 grant to build a permanent ring, and the construction saga a sixty-year royal ban on bullfighting helped stretch across more than a century.
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