Plaza de Toros de la Real Maestranza

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This may be your once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience the grand theatre of bullfighting at its highest level. Seville's bullring is among Spain's best, oldest and most elegant. If you decide to go, aim for the high-season (late July-early June) when the best matadors are working their craft.

Seville's bullring is one of the most handsome and important in Spain, and probably the oldest (building began in 1758). Take a tour of the ring, get a feel for the battleground and peep into its minihospital for bullfighters who got the wrong end of the bull's horn.

Andalucia established most of the basics of bullfighting on foot. If you can handle the grim prospect of seeing matador and bull go head to head, the Plaza de Toros has regular corridas (bullfighting days) between Easter Sunday and October.