Overview
Bullfighting here now runs to a handful of dates in August during the feria, and the building is otherwise used for concerts and holds a bullfighting museum. Attendance in Spain has fallen steadily and the practice is banned in Catalonia and the Canaries; Málaga’s ring is a working one, and visitors should know what they are buying a ticket to. The structure itself, iron and brick, is a good example of nineteenth-century Spanish industrial architecture.
Highlights
The view from Gibralfaro is the reason the ring is on most itineraries, and it costs nothing. The museum inside covers the history and the ring’s own famous names, and is open on non-event days. If you are considering a corrida, read what happens first: six bulls are killed in an afternoon, and that is the event, not an incident within it.