The relevance of the bullfighting tradition in Ronda is well known around the world, this has been due to a series of factors that have united through history and determinate the historical, social and cultural permanence of this tradition in our city; being also one of the main focuses of touristic attraction, muse of writers and painters, singers and poets, film directors and aristocracy, curious and students for being tightly related to its bullring, the oldest in the world, which every year commemorates the famous “Corridas Goyescas” that took place in the past and the beginning of the bases of modern bullfighting that emerged in honor to Pedro Romero.

One of the factors to highlight is the mythical presence of the bull as an element of entertainment in the Mediterranean since medieval times and with its culmination in the Iberian Peninsula. Due to a series of climatic and geographical elements this was more outstanding in the zones of Andalusia and Ronda, because of its strategic situation and its proximity to grasslands it was a perfect place for the development of this activity. It was for a long time the place for raising Lydian bulls.

Pedro Romero

Another factor, of course, is the historical importance of the city, from its origins until the conquest of Castile’s crown and what this brought along, revolts, instability, unsatisfied Muslim populations, beaten as a town but not as a race, which gave place to the necessity of creating brotherhoods of nobles and The Royal Knight’s Arsenals that in Ronda benefited notoriously the development of bullfighting as a popular festivity.

And the third essential factor in the bullfighting culture of Ronda is the fact that there existed a person with special attitudes in the task of going in front of a bull, whose ways and art imposed creating a school; we talk about Pedro Romero and his dynasty.

All this makes Ronda fundamental in the development of the bases of modern bullfighting

 

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