Art and culture
Hervás Bullring
This magnificent bullring is hidden in the heart of a chestnut wood.
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- Hervás Bullring
Bullfighting festivals since 1929
Location and Contact:
- Contact person: Ayuntamiento de Hervás
- Tel.:+34 927 48 10 02
- Fax: +34 927 47 31 56
- Email: ayto@hervas.com
- Website address: www.hervas.es
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This magnificent bullring is hidden in the heart of a chestnut wood.
Inaugurated in 1929 and rebuilt in 1950, this bullring conserves the bullfighting tradition of the village of Hervás. It has a capacity for 3,800 spectators and can be found in the chestnut wood of Hervás, surrounded by a magnificent forest of chestnut trees.
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- Origin:
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- 20th century
- Construction:
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- Bullring
- Period in history:
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- 20th century
- 21st century
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