Lima Sights

Museo Taurino

#6 of 306 things to do in Lima

#8 of 506 museum sights in South America

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  • Address
    • Jr Hualgayoc 332 Rímac
  • Email
  • Phone
    • 01 481-1467
  • Price
    • admission USS/1.50
  • Hours
    • 9:30am-4:30pm Mon-Fri

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Lonely Planet review for Museo Taurino

The Plaza de Acho, Lima’s bullring, has been located on the same site north of the Río Rímac since 1766. Here, some of the world’s most famous toreadors have taken on the bulls, among them the renowned Manolete from Spain. The Museo Taurino documents this history with cluttered displays of weapons, paintings, photographs and the gilded outfits worn by a succession of bullfighters – one of which includes gore holes and blood.

 

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    A history of Bulls and Men. Ole!!! Well worth a visit!

    cachalote71 recommends this,

    Despite the biased opinion of some reviewers, my wife and I decided to visit this museum as well as the massive bull-ring that sits above it.
    It is located on the north side of Rio Rimac in a location that appears less than safe. We walked across the river from Parque de la Muralla and arrived at the gates of the "Plaza de Acho" bull-ring. It is a very old complex with walls like I have imagined Troy could've had.
    To my surprise, we were the only patrons at the entire complex (we recieved an excellent private tour).
    After paying the small fee at the gate, an employee (extremely kind by the way) offered us a tour of the bull-ring and the Museo Taurino (Bullfight Museum). He spoke only castellano (spanish), and had an enormous amount of knowledge of the Museum, the Bull-ring, and the history of bull-fighting in both Latin-America and Spain.
    The bull-ring is the second oldest in the world and the oldest in the New World. We were able to see the magnificent Spanish fighting bulls or "los Toros de Lidia" in their stalls. The museum itself, is under the ring. It is full of artifacts dating from 1766 including many photos and paintings of the bulls and the bull-fighters. Many outfits worn by the matadores are here, as well as their sabers and spears. More interesting are the mounted heads of the most famous Bulls of the ring. The Bulls have names just like the matadores, and an equal homage is paid to them.
    Our guide answered many questions for us about the bulls, bull-fighting in Peru and the sport in general.
    I was very happy to have visited this grand old place and encourage others to do the same - if only for the difussion of knowledge; regardless of your stance on bull-fighting.

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