Bullfighting tour from Manolete to El Cordobés
Córdoba has given the world geniuses in all the arts and in bullfighting, the cast is quite impressive. From Manolete to El Cordobés, the list is endless: Lagartijo, Guerrita, Machaquito, Cañero, etc That is why there is really no lack of raw material in the Córdoba Museum of Bullfighting. And in this city you can make really colourful tours.
In Córdoba, Manolete is the great historical figure of bullfighting, the "4th Caliph". There is a route through the city that offers everything you could possibly wish for: taverns where you will find mementos of the master, houses where he lived, estates where he fought and his House-Museum. The works.
The house where he was born, in the Calle Conde de Torres Cabrera, leads to a monument to the bullfighter, in the Plaza del Conde de Priego. There are also a number of estates in the area surrounding Córdoba where he used to hold training sessions, specifically in Dehesa de Yeguas.
Of course, there are a number of bullfighting taverns with mementos and photos of the bullfighter, such as La Sacristía and La Fuenseca, and they are well worth a visit. And a third one, Rincón de las Beatillas, hosts the Manolete bullfighting get-together. When he was older, he lived in a house in the Avenida Cervantes. It is now a restaurant named after him and the philosopher Ortega y Gasset also came here.
The makes a stop at the Cemetery of Nuestra Señora de la Salud, where Manolete is buried. The tomb is crowned with a beautiful statue of the caliph, carved in marble by the sculptor and image maker Amadeo Ruiz Olmos.
The walk finishes in the Plaza Maimónides, in a stately 16th-century mansion which is home to the Córdoba Museum of Bullfighting. It features the five Caliphs of bullfighting: Lagartijo, Guerrita, Machaquito, Manolete and El Cordobés. The tour enables visitors to learn all about the history of bullfighting with the expert use of photographic material, bullfighting costumes, old posters, engravings, bullfighting instruments, sculptures and paintings.
Even if there is no bullfight that day, anyone can visit the private museum in the Plaza de Toros los Califas where you will find numerous mementos of Manolete
