Bulls return to Ronda two years later with a Goyesca featuring Morante as the main attraction

Two years later, the bulls return to Ronda after the consolidation process of the Real Maestranza de Caballería arena to enhance its safety, and they do so with the return of the Goyesca Bullfight, featuring the great attraction of Morante de la Puebla in an atypical season where he is selecting the arenas in which he will perform.

Morante will share the bill in the 67th edition of the Goyesca, which will take place on the afternoon of September 5 at 6 PM, with José María Manzanares and Juan Ortega to fight bulls from the Garcigrande ranch in a festival that will be opened by the rejoneador Diego Ventura, who will bullfight a bull from the Portuguese ranch of David Ribeiro, as announced this Wednesday by the manager of the Ronda Maestranza, Francisco Rivera Ordóñez.

Rivera Ordóñez has presented the Pedro Romero Fair of 2026, a year that commemorates the 75th anniversary of Antonio Ordóñez's alternativa - the soul of the Goyesca and an indispensable figure in the history of the Ronda arena - and in an edition that will also pay tribute to the rejoneador Álvaro Domecq Romero, who passed away last November, and who was also closely linked to the arena and the City of Ronda.

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A tribute that will be paid during the 42nd edition of the Ronda Rejoneo Bullfight which will take place on the morning of September 5, and where, in addition to Diego Ventura, Rui Fernandes, Joao Ribeiro Telles, Lea Vicens, Sebastián Fernández, and Duarte Fernandes will perform to fight bulls from David Ribeiro.

The Ronda season ticket will open on the afternoon of September 4, Friday, with a novillada without picadors where bulls from Aguadulce will be fought by the young swordsmen Jaime de Pedro (Granada), Armando Rojo (La Puebla del Río) and Héctor Nieto (Ronda).

The season ticket opens on Friday, September 4 with a novillada without picadors

The presentation of the festivities took place in the Hall of Degrees of the Real Maestranza de Caballería de Ronda with the presence of Francisco Rivera Ordóñez; the general director of the institution, Ignacio Herrera de la Muela, and the mayor of Ronda, María de la Paz Fernández Lobato.

Rivera Ordóñez expressed his happiness with the return of the bulls to Ronda, one of the most international events of the season. "You can't imagine the joy it gives me to be here today because two years without a Goyesca has felt eternal. It has been possible thanks to the tremendous effort made by the Maestranza and the administration, who have also pushed, our mayor and all those who have been involved in the recovery of the arena," he remarked.

Furthermore, the businessman referred to the prestige of the Goyesca and the respect all bullfighters have for it, expressing the ease he has found in arranging the line-ups: "Everyone likes to fight in the Goyesca and they pose no problem," he said, making a special reference to Morante de la Puebla: "He is perhaps the bullfighter most committed to the Goyesca and the easiest to hire. He only requested the Garcigrande ranch, but had no doubts about the other negotiations such as the bill and money. He told me: whoever you want and whatever you want to pay me."

Rivera Ordóñez states that Morante is the bullfighter "most committed" to the Goyesca and that "he only requested" the Garcigrande ranch

The poster announcing the Pedro Romero Fair is the work of Juan Uslé, one of the most representative and recognized contemporary painters in the international art scene.

Season ticket sales

Regarding the season tickets, sales will begin on March 10, Tuesday, at 12 PM on the website www.riveraordonez.com, while the dates for purchasing individual tickets will be announced later.

From the Real Maestranza de Caballería de Ronda, through a statement, they highlighted that the resumption of bullfighting events in the arena after the consolidation works is possible thanks to "the scheduling of the intervention works promoted by the management team of the Real Maestranza and the study of Ricardo Aroca, aimed at reaching the scheduled date of celebration. In this context, the project architect directly communicated to Francisco Rivera Ordóñez the availability forecast of the arena for the festivities."