Description of the attraction
Right in the center of Valencia, there is a large arena, built like the ancient Roman amphitheaters in the neoclassical style, and its appearance resembles the Roman Colosseum. A huge arena with a diameter of 52 meters, surrounded by four levels of columns and balustrades, in the architecture of which there are Doric ornaments that give it a resemblance to the buildings of Ancient Greece, for more than 150 years it has been a place of confrontation between bulls and people. It is inside this arena that the Bullfighting Museum is located.
The Bullfighting Museum in Valencia was founded in 1929 at the expense of Luis Moroder Peyro and the picador Jose Bayard Badil, collectors interested in the history of bullfighting and managed to collect a large number of materials about bullfighting and objects associated with it, dating back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Comparatively small in size, the museum nevertheless has an impressive exhibition and covers the history of bullfighting in Valencia over several centuries. The museum displays all kinds of documents, posters, posters and announcements, as well as costumes, prints, cloaks and personal belongings of famous matadors from the 18th century. There is a hall that displays portraits and biographies of famous bullfighters. It also provides an overview of the characteristics of fighting bulls, as well as the techniques for training professional matadors. In addition, the museum has a library, as well as an equipped audiovisual room, in which visitors can themselves watch the colorful moments of outstanding past battles.
After visiting the museum, there is an opportunity to inspect the building as a whole, its premises and, of course, the arena itself.
