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Morante de la Puebla, Roca Rey, Juan Ortega and Pablo Aguado, with 4 bullfights every, are the foundations of the La Maestranza de Seville season ticket for the 2026 season, which was introduced on Monday night time at a gala held at Cartuja Center within the Andalusian capital, and attended by about 2,000 folks, based on the group, together with a number of the introduced bullfighters, comparable to Morante de la Puebla, which reappeared in public after its withdrawal on October 12.

The season will open on April 5, Easter Sunday, the continued cycle of the truthful will likely be held from April 11 to 26; the Corpus bullfight on June 4 is recovered after 16 years; and the San Miguel Fair will happen between September 24 and 27.

18 bullfights, six bullfights and a bullfighting present are the festivities that make up the Sevillian cycle, during which Borja Jiménez, Alejandro Talavante, José María Manzanares, Daniel Luque are introduced three afternoons for a complete of 29 bullfighters, together with some younger folks comparable to Fabio Jiménez, Aarón Palacio, Molina, Javier Zulueta and Víctor Hernández.

Among the absences, these of Paco Ureña, Fernando Adrián, Curro Díaz, Ginés Marín and Marco Pérez, amongst others, stand out.

Nothing new within the livestock facet in comparison with previous years, besides the presentation of Álvaro Núñez and Puerto de San Lorenzo and the double of Garcigrande and Hnos. García Jiménez.

The new businessman of the plaza, José María Garzón, defined the benefits for the subscribers—“my VIP clients,” he stated—that are as follows: for the primary time, they may take pleasure in a ten% low cost on the worth of the subscription, 50% low cost on bullfights with out horses, free entry to the Antequera Sale, the place a number of the introduced bullfights will likely be exhibited, and 10% low cost on the opposite plazas of his firm, Lances de Future.

All of this, for the primary time within the historical past of this sq., was introduced in type throughout a spectacular gala during which the acrobatic group Dinamic, the singer María Espinosa, the flamenco singer Diego Carrasco, Maestro Tejera’s band, who carried out the nationwide anthem, and the clarineros of the Sevillian sq. carried out.

Victoria Collantes and Juanma Lamet acted as presenters, insisting that “a new era of the essences of Seville with a vocation for modernity is beginning,” and congratulated the brand new businessman “because you have the jewel in the crown and I hope you enjoy it very much.”

The two of them introduced the totally different mixtures of the posters, and gave solution to Garzón’s interventions, so excited that he restricted himself to thanking them for the belief positioned in him and telling the benefits of being a subscriber; to Jorge Paradela, Minister of Industry of the Junta de Andalucía, who spoke on behalf of the Minister of the Interior, Antonio Sanz, devoted to the results of the current rains, and to the mayor of Seville, who was the one one who remembered the corporate Pagés, earlier supervisor of the sq.. “I want to thank,” he stated, “the entity that has managed the plaza for 90 years, and has consolidated it as the epicenter of bullfighting worldwide.”

During the gala, the group introduced that the businessman will maintain a press convention tomorrow, Wednesday, to clarify the content material of the posters.

For the primary time, subscribers could have a ten % low cost on the field workplace worth

The mixtures are the next:

April Fair

Sunday April 5. Easter Sunday. Morante de la Puebla, Roca Rey and David de Miranda (Garcigrande bulls).

Saturday 11. Pepe Moral, Lama de Góngora and Fabio Jiménez (bulls from Alcurrucén).

Domingo 12. Álvaro Lorenzo, Rafa Serna and Molina (bulls from Fuente Ymbro).

Mars, 14. bullfighting Emiliano Osornio, Tomás Bastos and Julio Norte (Talavante steers).

Wednesday 15. Miguel Ángel Perera, David Galván and Aarón Palacio (Santiago Domecq bulls).

Thursday 16. Morante de la Puebla, Juan Ortega and Víctor Hernández (bulls of Álvaro Núñez).

Friday the seventeenth. Alejandro Talavante, Roca Rey and Pablo Aguado (bulls of Domingo Hernández).

Saturday 18. Manuel Escribano and Borja Jiménez, hand in hand (Victorino Martín bulls).

Domingo 19. Bullfighting present. Andy Cartagena, Lea Vicens and Guillermo Hermoso de Mendoza (Capea bulls).

Monday 20. Morante de la Puebla, Borja Jiménez and Tomás Rufo (bulls of Hnos. García Jiménez).

Mars 21. José María Manzanares, Alejandro Talavante and Daniel Luque (Núñez del Cuvillo bulls).

Wednesday 22. Diego Urdiales, Emilio de Justo and David de Miranda (El Parralejo bulls).

Thursday 23. José María Manzanares, Roca Rey and Javier Zulueta (bulls from Victoriano del Río).

Friday the twenty fourth. Daniel Luque, Juan Ortega and Pablo Aguado (Juan Pedro Domecq bulls).

Saturday 25. El Cid, Fortes and José Garrido (La Quinta bulls).

Domingo 26. Manuel Escribano, Pepe Moral and Román (Miura bulls).

Thursday June 4. Corpus Christi. Morante de la Puebla, Juan Ortega and Pablo Aguado (bulls of Hnos. García Jiménez).

San Miguel Fair

Thursday, September 24. bullfighting Olga Casado, Ignacio Garibay and Manuel Domínguez (Garcigrande bulls).

Friday the twenty fifth. José María Manzanares, Alejandro Talavante and Juan Ortega (bulls from Puerto de San Lorenzo).

Saturday 26. Emilio de Justo, Roca Rey and Pablo Aguado (Jandilla bulls).

Domingo 27. Morante —if he decides to combat in San Miguel—, Daniel Luque and Borja Jiménez (Garcigrande bulls).

bullfights

Sunday May 10. Carlos Tirado, Mario Vilau and Julio Méndez (La Cercada).

Domingo 17. Uceda Vargas, Gonzalo Capdevila and Mariscal Ruiz (Murteira Grave).

Domingo 31. López Peregrino, Martín Morilla and Ruiz de Velasco (Guadaira).

Thursday June 11. Manuel Olivero, Rodrigo Tenorio and Sergio Rollón (Fermín Bohórquez).

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