Bullring

A bullring (Spanish: Plaza de Toros, Portuguese: Praça de Touros ) is the host of bullfights, which are operated in Spain as a ritualized killing of bulls, while in Portugal the bull leaves the arena alive.

The bullring is a circular building, similar to an amphitheater. For the spectators, often there are three categories of seats available: the cooler shade ( sombra ), the more favorable sun spaces ( sol), and the places that are at the beginning of the corrida in the sun and be overshadowed in the course of the fighting (Spanish: sol y sombra, Portuguese: sol e sombra ). In some arenas, such as those in Ronda, one of the oldest (built 1779-1785 ) and most beautiful in Spain, or in the traditional Praça de Touros do Campo Pequeno in Lisbon, all spaces are covered.

Most bullrings have about 50 m in diameter and four outputs, one of which is left to the victorious bullfighter reserved. The fighting area surrounding a wooden wall with a baseboard, so that the Matador can skip them on the run from the bull.

Especially in Spain have many arenas over a butcher's shop, a private horse farm, a bull pen and an infirmary. The flesh of the dead bulls is decomposed into the butcher shop and can later in the surrounding meat stores ( carnicerías ) and supermarkets to buy. The proceeds often serves charitable purposes. In Portugal, the arenas have stables next to a sick-bay, where the veterinary examines the bulls after the battle before releasing them for slaughter or to return to the breeding farm.