He August 29 marks 77 years Since Manolete is dead after a fuck in the bullring of Linares, and also this year It also commemorates the 85th anniversary of its alternativewhich took place on July 2, 1939 at the Maestranza in Seville. Given the two anniversaries, they were held this Wednesday two tributes to the legendary right-handerone in his Mausoleum of the cemetery of Our Lady of Healthorganized by the bullfighting gathering of La Montera. The other at night in the Conde de Priego Squarewhere the monument to the bullfighter is located, organized by the Casa de Jaén in Cordoba.
Inside cemetery mausoleum, many people from the bullfighting worldaccompanied by representatives of the authorities and personalities of Cordoba, gathered around a floral offering that ended with a brief response during which an Our Father, a Hail Mary and a Glory were prayed. The participants were He offered a poster of the alternative as a souvenirand various people laid their bouquets on the grave, in addition to throwing flowers there.
After a brief presentation by the founder of La Montera, Ladislao Rodríguez, the event continued with another intervention by event moderatorPaco Lara, who projection that precisely this a simple tribute started in 1991 with a womanMaria de los Angeles Alcántara, glossing the figure of ManoleteAnd It was someone else in charge of this workRosa María Expósito, president of the Priego de Córdoba bullfighting club.
Foundlingthe only president of a bullfighting club in the province of Cordoba, highlighted many of the virtues of the bullfighterboth inside and outside the arena, which he believes has made him a legendary figure: “His elegance and courage In the ring, they made Manolete an icon not only in Spain, but in all the countries where bullfighting celebrations take place. For the speaker, “Manolete was unique”The president of the bullfighting club of Priego de Córdoba defined Manolete’s bullfighting as something very personal, “characterized, as is well known, by exceptional elegance and courage.”
In the evening, at 9:30 p.m. and in the Plaza del Conde de Priego, the tribute organized by the House of Jaén in Cordoba. THE presentation in charge of President of the Toro de Lidia Foundation in CordobaFrancisco Gordon, had the particularity of being composed verseand especially in a linked quintet that serves as an original elegy. “Even if it seems heretical, Manolete has something of Christ, he is similar in his life and his death recalls Calvary, like the mythical suffering and death,” Gordon explained. “Manolete’s person has transcended himself so much that 107 years after his birth, deep down, he is still alive.”
