Maestranza

... 3 weeks in Uruguay. The market has an upstairs as well and I just popped up to capture a photo. Our restaurant - La Maestranza. Well recommended. Seriously, as foods of the world go - you will love it! Uruguayan Parrilla (pronounced Parisha by the ...

... we immediately headed out exploring.  I was very eager to get to our first destination, the bullring.    The Real Maestranza Bullring is one of the oldest bull fighting arenas in Spain.  We did not see an actual bullfight (most ...

... the home of bull fighting in Spain, so we brought a ticket to the fight on Saturday at the Plaza De Toros De LA Maestranza. The atmosphere and passion from the locals was pretty immense. However perhaps we were a bit naïve and we weren't really prepared ...

... is doing a bit better than us but we are all very hot. We wandered around the Plaza de Toros de la Real Maestranza (bull-fighting plaza), but it was too expensive to get inside so we skipped it. Bull-fighting sounds disturbing anyway.    By ...

... but there was nothing there. Had a sangria at a café in the shadow of the bridge then walked to the Plaza Toros Maestranza, Seville’s bull ring. This is one tourist activity I will not be participating in as I think bullfighting is a barbaric ...

... was a hot day, the hottest we’ve had for quite awhile, so we caught a ride to the Plaza de Toros de la Real Maestranza de Caballería de Sevilla, ie, the city’s bull ring, the largest in Spain and probably the most famous in the world. We then ...

... and parks that once made Sevilla the leading Muslim city in Spain. The first place I visited was the Plaza de Toros Real Maestranza (or 'bullring' for short). Built between 1760 and 1763, this was one of the oldest bullrings in Spain. The bullfighting ...

... early start. I finally sent my stack of postcards (major procrastinator - one was Sept. 24th!!), then decided to wander down to the Maestranza or the bull ring. I had seen it from the top of the Giralda the day before, and it looked a fair distance, but ...

... and leave them alone. We went on a tour of one of the oldest bullrings in Spain, Plaza de Toros del la Real Maestranza, built in 1761 its holds a maximum capacity of 14000 people. It is also home to one of Sevilla´s apprentice bullfighting ...