Toros - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 07:46:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Toros - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Royal reeds in honour of the royal wedding of the kings of the Two Sicilies https://historylab.es/royal-reeds-in-honour-of-the-royal-wedding-of-the-kings-of-the-two-sicilies/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=royal-reeds-in-honour-of-the-royal-wedding-of-the-kings-of-the-two-sicilies Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:33 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/canas-reales-en-honor-al-casamiento-real-de-los-reyes-de-las-dos-sicilias/ Festivities organised for the wedding of the kings of the Two Sicilies: Charles of Bourbon and Maria Amelia Cristina, with a bullfight at the Maestranza. Seville (1738).

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]]> The image shows the poster for the Cañas Reales, which were organised at the Real Maestranza in Seville on 24 October 1738 to celebrate the marriage between the kings of the Two Sicilies: Charles of Bourbon, the future Charles III, and Maria Amalia Christina of Saxony. The bullfighting and bullfighting festivities were a mixture of military exercises and bullfighting on horseback, which served as an entertainment spectacle, but also to keep the nobles who formed part of the armies in shape. These festivities, as well as taking place in the Reales Maestranzas, were usually held in the main squares of the cities, the parade grounds of the castles or in palenques specially set up for the occasion, and were held all over the kingdom. On occasions, bullfights were quite bloody due to the number of people who were injured or lost their lives, which is why they were questioned and sometimes banned, as happened in the second half of the 16th century after the Pope banned bullfighting festivals. At the beginning of the 17th century bullfighting festivals reappeared again, and it was with Philip IV that they reached their splendour, being held to celebrate important events such as weddings and royal births, military victories or other great events. From the 19th century onwards, the celebration of these spectacles became less frequent.

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]]> Bullfighting in the Plaza Mayor in Madrid https://historylab.es/bullfighting-in-the-plaza-mayor-in-madrid/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bullfighting-in-the-plaza-mayor-in-madrid Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:03 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/corrida-de-toros-en-la-plaza-mayor-de-madrid/ This resource shows a bullfight in the Plaza Mayor in Madrid, a popular festival that served to celebrate a variety of political, social, military and religious events during the Modern Age. It belongs to the Collection: Selected Optical Views of the 18th and 19th Centuries. Volume 5, Views of Great Britain and Spain

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]]> The image shows a view of the Plaza Mayor in Madrid, where bullfighting festivities, in this case a bullfight, are being held. These festivities have been held since ancient times and were deeply rooted in Spain, supported to a large extent by the nobility as the main backer, although they soon became the favourite spectacle of the people due to their recreational nature. During the Modern Age they served to commemorate a variety of political, military, social and religious events, becoming one of the main attractions of these celebrations.

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