Plaza de Toros de Pamplona is a bullring in Pamplona, Spain. It is currently used for bull fighting, sporting or cultural events and music concerts.
Built in 1922 by Francisco Urcola,[1] the stadium holds 19,720 people. It is the end point of the famous Running of the bulls during the festival of San Fermín.
During the first months of 1939, towards the end of Spanish Civil War, it housed a Francoist concentration camp with a capacity of 3,000 Republican prisoners.[2]
Citations
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Plaza de Toros Monumental de Pamplona.
- ^ "Plaza De Toros: Pamplona's Bullfighting Arena". The Running of the Bulls. www.runningofthebulls.com. Retrieved 30 April 2024.
- ^ Hernández de Miguel, Carlos (2019). Los campos de concentración de Franco (in Spanish). Penguin Random House. p. 42. ISBN 978-84-666-6478-3.
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