Bulls: Talavante, incomprehensible exponent of the Fallas honest with amortized bullfighters and younger individuals with a future | Culture | EUROtoday

The Valencia bullring will reopen its doorways, after a break since final May because of the new lighting works, on the event of the 2026 Fallas Fair.

The new fallero cycle, between the seventh and nineteenth of subsequent March, will encompass six bullfights, two bullfights with picadors, one with out them, and the basic bullfighting celebration. The poster presentation gala befell on the Charity Cultural Center and was attended by the president of the Provincial Council, Vicente Mompó, and the heads of the corporate Espacios Nautalia 360, Rafael García Garrido and Víctor Zabala. In addition, a number of of the introduced swords had been additionally current, such because the matadors Fortes, Román, Tomás Rufo, Samuel Navalón and Víctor Hernández, and the bullfighters Marco Polope, Juan Alberto Torrijos, Mario Vilau, Julio Méndez and Alberto Donaire.

The subscription has Alejandro Talavante as the best exponent and likewise not very comprehensible, as he fought two afternoons, along with asserting himself as a rancher within the first bullfight. The greatest and most welcome novelties are represented by the younger matadors David de Miranda, Samuel Navalón, Víctor Hernández and Marco Pérez, who refresh a good that additionally has very veteran bullfighters within the ranks, in some instances with the curiosity amortized. Fortes returns to Valencia, after a number of years of absence, fortuitously recovered for bullfighting. Also among the many younger individuals, though already identified on this sq., are Borja Jiménez and Tomás Rufo, who make up a shocking and never very understood head-to-head on the 18th. A subscription, briefly, that mixes swords with their skilled historical past already written, with others that time to the renewal of the ranks.

The livestock chapter affords no information and the identical outdated irons are repeated on the afternoons when the so-called figures seem. The irons of La Quinta and Santiago Domecq symbolize the best bullish curiosity within the livestock sector.

There are two absences that stand out and are usually not understood, that of the matador Daniel Luque, some of the distinguished of the 2025 version, and that of the bullfighter El Mene, the nice and undisputed winner of final yr’s Fallas.

According to Rafael García Garrido, head of the corporate, “I would title this cycle as the fair of illusion, in which we have combined talent and need.” In addition to highlighting the information introduced “as the hope of bullfighting,” Garrido additionally identified that the present context of bullfighting has nothing to do with what it was 5 years in the past, after they arrived in Valencia, “now it is a fair that is committed to the renewal of bullfighting, and Valencia is the first premier bullring that must respond to the future of bullfighting.”

For his half, Vicente Mompó, president of the Provincial Council, introduced that along with the renovation of the lighting already accomplished, “throughout the season various works will be carried out in the arena, which will not prevent the normal development of the season, which will serve to condition it and turn it into one of the best in Spain without losing its essence as a temple of bullfighting.”

The combos of the Fallas of 2026 are the next:

Saturday, March 7. Bullfighting with out picadors with college students from the totally different bullfighting colleges.

Domingo, 8. bullfighting Emiliano Osornio, Mario Vilau and Marco Polope (Talavante steers).

Friday, the thirteenth. Fortes, Román and David de Miranda (La Quinta bulls)

Saturday, 14. Alejandro Talavante, Roca Rey and Samuel Navalón (bulls from Victoriano del Rio and Toros de Cortés).

Domingo, 15. Morning jogging. Andy Cartagena, Diego Ventura and Lea Vicens (bulls of María Guiomar Cortés de Moura)

Domingo, 15. In the afternoon. Sebastián Castella, José María Manzanares and Pablo Aguado (Jandilla bulls)

Monday, 16. bullfighting Juan Alberto Torrijos, Julio Méndez and Julio Norte (bulls from Fuente Ymbro)

Mars, 17. Miguel Ángel Perera, Víctor Hernández and Marco Pérez (Santiago Domecq bulls)

Wednesday, 18. Borja Jiménez and Tomás Rufo, hand in hand (bulls of Domingo Hernández)

Thursday, 19. Alejandro Talavante, Emilio de Justo and Juan Ortega (bulls from Núñez del Cuvillo).

The bullfight to be celebrated on Saturday, May 9, on the event of the competition of the Virgen de los Desamparados, was additionally introduced, through which Alberto Donaire, Félix Sanromán and Ignacio Garibay will carry out in entrance of Chamaco’s utreros.

Following the presentation of the posters, the Bullfighting Union of Valencia Subscribers, chaired by Agustín Colomar, has printed a word through which, amongst different issues, it factors out that “we cannot be happy, because we are missing some bullfighters and we have plenty of others.” He provides that hand-to-hand “is unjustified”; Talavante “is not who he was and should not be at the fair, just like Manzanares and Castella”; and one thing unprecedented: “another fair without Daniel Luque.”