Bullfighting Museum of Antequera
Open:
Saturdays from 18.00h to 21.00h
Sundays from 10.00h to 13.00h, and 18.00h to 21.00h
Contains various objects relating to the world of bullfighting,
including a bronze statue by Sánchez Panadero and Clemente
entitled 'El Tiro de Mulillas' (Mules dragging out a bull).
Located at:
The Bullring, Parque Maria Cristina, Antequera
Tel: 952 786 968
Antequera
The privileged situation of Antequera, in the geographical
centre of Andalucía, had made it one of the most important
towns between upper and lower Andalucía, Granada and
Seville. It is a modern town these days, complete with all
the services and shopping facilities one would expect in a
large town, but it also has a past rich in culture and history
that is, perhaps, unequalled in any other southern Spanish
town of its size. There are many archaeological remains from
the Bronze Age, such as the dolmens at Menga, Viera and El
Romeral, all burial grounds of the highest order. It is believed
that the Iberians, the Tartessus tribes, the Phoenicians and
the Carthaginians all settled here at one time or another,
and Carthaginian remains have been found at Cerro León,
where the battle between the Romans and the Carthaginians
of Asdrúbal took place. The Moors later named the place
Medina Antecaria. After the conquest of Seville and Jaén,
Antequera took on great strategic importance as a military
frontier fortification. It was conquered in 1410 by the infante
Don Fernando, known in the history books as Don Fernando de
Antequera. The 19th century was tragic for Antequera. Its
population was decimated by the Napoleonic invasion and the
yellow fever of 1804, and it was not until 1830 that a prosperous
middle class emerged as a result of the growing textile industry.
This sector was to suffer once more in the beginning of the
20th century. Antequera is now a modern town that is ideally
placed to receive tourists, in which history still lives in
its numerous monuments and historical buildings. To see the
town in a single day would be impossible. In his book "Artistic
Guide to Antequera", the historian Jesús Romero
counts 43 monuments of interest to tourists. Of these, 25
are churches, convents and religious buildings.
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