Description
This taurino museum is located in the old blocks of the Plaza de Toros de Villanueva del Archbishop. Its rooms are home to texts, photographs and audiovisual collected throughout the more than 90 years of the history of that coso where some of the most prominent figures of the bullfighting, from Manolete to Curro Romero to the brothers Rivera Ordoñez, El Cordobés or Fandi, have performed. One part of the exhibition is dedicated to providing information about tauromacia in general, while another important part of the collection refers to local taurina history. For example, it is possible to see the story of the rejonador Antonio Cañero that opened the sign on the day of the opening of the square in 1928 and also to watch videos, models, publications and other materials.
The museum is divided into two sections: In the first one is made a pleasant introduction to the bullfighting for the people of Novels on this theme and the second section speaks of the relationship that Villanueva of the Archbishop has with this world, from the beginning of the municipality going through the reasons why the current bullring square was built and making special mention of the most famous bulldozers who have stepped on this bullring.