Tour Itinerary

Explore the entire bullring and its Immersive Museum with the Malagueta Tour

The Malagueta Tour (Immersive Bullfighting Exhibition Center) allowsyou to explore the bullring and the immersive bullfighting museum, a unique space designed to introduce visitors to the fascinating world of bullfighting. Through a fun and tech-driven approach, this venue combines tradition and innovation to offer an unforgettable experience.

During the tour, you’ll enjoy immersive experiences that will awaken your senses: aromas, sounds, and projections that will envelop you in the atmosphere of bullfighting. In addition, the tour includes six rooms dedicated to exploring bullfighting from its origins to the present day, showcasing its evolution and its impact on Spain’s history and culture.

What are you going to watch?

The Tour Itinerary

1. History of La Malagueta: We’ll tell you the history of the square and its significance.

2. Pens: Where the bulls rest before facing their fate.

3. Seating Sections and the Presidential Box: A panoramic view from the bleachers to understand how a bullfight unfolds.

4. Infirmary: The place no bullfighter wants to go, but that everyone ends up going to.

5. Grand Exit: The place where bullfighters dream of being carried out on the shoulders of the crowd.

6. Exit Gate: The gate through which the bull passes after its heroic death, amid the applause of the audience.

7. Bullpens: From the darkness of a narrow space, the bull emerges to face its fate.

8. The Bullring: Where everything important happens—where the bull and the bullfighter face off.

9. Gate to the bullfighters’ quarters and chapel: Where the bullfighters wait for the paseíllo and pray to God.

10. Immersive Museum: A space where you can discover history and tradition through technology. In the heart of La Malagueta, an iconic bullring with over a century of history, the six rooms of the immersive bullfighting museum invite you to enjoy a unique experience, combining the richness of the past with the digital age of the present, offering you an innovative way to explore bullfighting through history, music, art, and symbolism.

The route is subject to change due to maintenance work or other obstacles.

The Bullfighting Museum

In the heart of La Malagueta, an iconic bullring with over a century of history, the museum invites you to enjoy a unique experience. Our 6 Immersive Galleries combine the richness of the past with modern technology, offering you an innovative way to explore bullfighting through history, art, and excitement.

The Origins of Bullfighting

This room invites visitors to discover the origins of bullfighting and the ancient relationship between humans and the bull, an animal steeped in symbolism since the earliest civilizations. Throughout the tour, visitors can learn about the importance of the bull in various cultures—such as the Iberian, Roman, and Egyptian—as well as its role in ancient religious rites and cults.

One of the main figures is the figure of the bull god Apis, one of the most important sacred animals of Ancient Egypt. Considered a symbol of fertility, strength, and a connection to the divine, Apis was particularly revered in the city of Memphis.

There, the sacred bull received daily offerings at the Temple of Ptah. After its death, solemn funeral rites were held: it was embalmed and carefully buried in the Serapeum of Saqqara, the great necropolis dedicated to the sacred Apis bulls.

This ancient bull cult reflects the importance this animal has held throughout history as a symbol of power, fertility, and spirituality, leaving a profound cultural legacy that continues to fascinate us to this day.

Chivalrous Bullfighting

This exhibition traces the origins of bullfighting on horseback, a practice initially linked to the military training of the nobility that, over time, evolved into a public display of skill, equestrian mastery, and courage in the face of the bull.

Through items such as lances, riding spears, and rejoneador jackets, visitors can learn how the matadors developed and perfected these skills in the bullrings, combining technique, tradition, and spectacle. Each item on display offers a better understanding of the evolution of this practice and its importance in the development of bullfighting as we know it today.

The centerpiece of the room is the Royal Decree of Philip II, a historical document closely linked to the development of the chivalric brotherhoods and the creation of the Royal Order of Cavalry of Ronda in 1573.

This legacy of the Ronda nobility helped to establish an equestrian tradition that, over the centuries, evolved into one of the most recognizable forms of bullfighting on horseback and modern rejoneo.

Contemporary Bullfighting

Bullfighting bullfighting on foot, as we know it today, is one of the most recognizable forms of bullfighting, where technique, courage, and artistic expression come together in the bullring.

This gallery invites visitors to explore the evolution of contemporary bullfighting and its close relationship with the visual arts. Through a variety of works, visitors can see how numerous artists have interpreted the world of bullfighting from very different perspectives, making bullfighting a constant source of artistic inspiration.

The centerpiece of the room is the series of lithographs “Corrida”, created by Rafael Alberti in 1970. In these works, the poet and artist captures the movement, intensity, and expressive power of the bullring through brushstrokes full of dynamism and color.

These lithographs offer a personal perspective on the world of bullfighting and show how the art of bullfighting has transcended the bullring to become a significant theme in contemporary art and culture.

The Bullfighter’s Costume

The bullfighting costume It is one of the most recognizable elements of bullfighting and a true expression of craftsmanship, tradition, and creativity. In this room, visitors can get an up-close look at the details that characterize these unique pieces, from the embroidery and embellishments to the selection of fabrics and materials used in their creation.

The centerpiece of the room is the the bullfighting costume that Málaga-born bullfighter Javier Conde wore at the 2010 Picasso Bullfight in Málaga, designed by the prestigious fashion designer Christian Lacroix.

The dress stands out for its elaborate jet-black embroidery, which covers much of its surface and is combined with delicate hand-painted motifs. The result is reminiscent of a canvas and establishes a visual dialogue with the artistic universe of Pablo Picasso, serving as a tribute to the painter from Málaga right inside the bullring itself.

Made in the workshops of the Madrid-based tailor shop Santos, this bullfighter’s costume represents the union of fashion, craftsmanship, art, and bullfighting, and demonstrates how traditional attire can be transformed into an exceptional work of art.

The Fighting Bull

This room invites you to discover the life of the wild bull in its natural habitat: the dehesa, a landscape characteristic of the Iberian Peninsula where nature, tradition, and livestock farming have coexisted for centuries.

Through panoramic projections and immersive sounds, visitors are transported into the landscapes of the wild countryside and learn how fighting bulls live on the ranches, in vast open spaces where they thrive and coexist in direct contact with nature.

The tour provides a better understanding of the relationship between the fighting bull, its surroundings, and the culture of livestock farming, while highlighting the ecological importance of the dehesa. This ecosystem promotes the conservation of large areas of open land and is home to a remarkable diversity of animal and plant species.

The fighting bull ranches They are part of this landscape and help maintain a model of extensive farming closely tied to the land. In this way, the exhibition presents the bull not only as one of the great symbols of bullfighting, but also as part of a unique ecosystem and a livestock tradition deeply rooted in the Iberian Peninsula.

Let’s all go to the bullfight!

This room shows how the bull and bullfighting have transcended the confines of the bullring to become cultural icons with a significant presence in society and in various forms of artistic expression.

Through audiovisual presentations, visitors can discover its influence in fields as diverse as fashion, pop and rock music, opera, literature, film, sports, and the media.

The exhibition brings together moments and references that have become part of popular culture: bullfighting broadcasts that defined an era in television, songs inspired by the world of bullfighting, literary works related to bullfighting, and numerous depictions in film and other artistic disciplines.

The exhibition also shows how bullfighting aesthetics have made their way onto haute couture runways and how the figure of the bull has been used as a symbol and source of inspiration in various sporting events and competitions.

An immersive space that offers insight into how the image of the bull and the world of bullfighting have inspired different generations and forged links between tradition and some of the most representative cultural expressions of the 20th and 21st centuries.