Covid-19. Is it safe to go to the coronavirus bulls?
"You have to wear a mask and try not to talk"
Sevilla.Maestranza and Pagés will fulfill the contract until 2025
Madrid: the crossroads of Las Ventas
Regarding the start of the season, some doubts are hovering.
There are rumors about possible posters, for example, in Seville, but everything is up in the air.
It depends on the evolution of the pandemic.
The plans of the companies in the main bullrings could be ruined by the third wave of infections.
The coronavirus pandemic, as it did in 2020, puts the management contracts of squares and the relationship of the Administration and private properties with businessmen to the test.
urinos.
This is the panorama in the main bullrings.
Valencia
"The third wave of the pandemic will reach its climax in mid-March
", says Simón Casas, the businessman of the Valencia bullring, to this newspaper. Casas has asked to organize the fair with 50% of the capacity," like Ramón Valencia ", and is awaiting the response from the Generalitat. "It is the protocol.
They must or must not authorize us.
It will be impossible for there to be bulls in March due to the health situation
.
From what is known, from what I hear. "
plan B
de Casas is to transfer the festivities to the rest of the traditional dates in Valencia.
"As of May, July or already in October"
He sees it clearer in July.
"There may be bulls with limited capacity. We will host the fair at the beginning of the month", assuming that there will be no bulls in Pamplona,
The Bull Fair is so closely linked to the San Fermín festivities
, practically ruled out by Chivite.
"That is a realistic scenario. The one in July will be the first fair of the first square in a year and a half. I already said that those are the realistic considerations." Regarding the contract, "we have signed 2021. We have not paid the full fee. All the negotiations with the council have been good, we pay according to the occupation of the building.
When we have not been able to give the Fallas, we only pay for the bullfight without horses and the occupation of the lockers.
It is proportional. "
Seville
"The relationship between the company and the teachers is good," says someone from Pagés' environment to this newspaper.
Despite the lawsuit filed by Ramón Valencia to the owners of the bullring.
The source prefers to remain anonymous.
Regarding the contract, in 2015 EL MUNDO announced that it will end in 2025 when all the rumors pointed to a life agreement.
"The fee is a percentage of the box office."
About 22%.
"There is no minimum number of celebrations. No agreement has been reached
.
It depends on the pandemic.
Theoretically, as there is no celebration, there is no income
.
However, the contract is still alive. "Will there be bulls in the Maestranza in April?" It is a future that cannot be known. "Will 50% of the capacity be allowed?" The intention of everyone is that there be ", they point to the same sources.
Madrid
"The viability of giving bulls as soon as the situation allows it is being studied," they point out from the Plaza 1 company. Las Ventas is owned by the Community of Madrid.
"We have a series of meetings planned to shed light.
We depend on the vaccination periods
.
As soon as possible, there will be bulls within the particular circumstances of the Plaza de Las Ventas ", inaugurated in 1934.
They refer from the company "to the accesses, the structures, the limitations.
It is still too early to tell.
There was a meeting.
We do not see the clear horizon.
We are at the expense of the evolution of the pandemic to start talking about specific dates. "
The contract is "one full year".
And it has been "re-extended as appropriate, seeking a balance, until June 2022. It allows to offset 15% of the contract without counting extensions."
Regarding the works of Las Ventas, the main challenge of the first place in the world,
both the Community and Plaza 1 remain silent
.
Cordova
At the end of 2020 the rumor circulated of starting the season in Córdoba, run by
Jose Maria Garzon
"for five years", with an annual fee of around 60,000 euros.
"2021 is already paid"
says the businessman, who considers the option of organizing a celebration in March in this privately owned square to be ruled out.
"The owners are willing to give bulls if I fulfill my obligations"
.
It is possible that the minimum number of celebrations required by the contract cannot be met.
Garzón has not wanted to clarify how many there are.
"If it cannot be fulfilled, we will reach an agreement," he trusts.
The Port of Santa Maria
"In El Puerto there is no company," says Garzón, the last manager of the square that has celebrated its 140th anniversary this summer.
"If the sheet is good, viable, of course I will introduce myself
". For the August 6 bullfight he signed" an agreement for that date. "It was the only company that had an interest in giving bulls in El Puerto, according to what he told
Bullfighting Notebooks
the councilor in charge of bullfighting affairs, Álvaro González.
The fee will be 4,000 euros and, with respect to the previous fee, the maintenance costs or the IBI payment have been eliminated.
Santander
Santander's bullring is
"public ownership"
.
Garzón runs it "in a three-year project."
The City Council, "the bullfighting council of the consistory", "has the will to do things".
As the situation is, he adds, "there is a good disposition.
We meet in december
.
For now, let's see how everything happens.
It is premature to say something. "
Bilbao
The Bailleres-Martínez Flamarique company is the successful bidder for the Vista Alegre bullring.
BMF pays a fee of 250,000 euros compared to the minimum of 105,000 euros required by the specifications.
The company directed by Antonio Barrera had committed to giving 15 bullfighting celebrations throughout the year
, eight more than the mandatory ones.
According to the minutes of the contracting table of the award proposal
, made public on the Bilbao City Council website, BMF also proposes the celebration "of a popular show and a promotional bullfight that will serve as the end of a contest of four" to be held during the rest of the year that will serve to honor to the bullfighter Iván Fandiño. And he plans to organize "a mini fair during the season, called Zezen fest", which includes another "novillada and a bullfighting festival".
The company has declined to answer the questions of this newspaper.
Saragossa
Carlos Zúñiga and Tauroejea's contract with the Zaragoza Provincial Council extends until 2021. He does not know if there will be an extension after going blank for 2020. "We have not yet sat down. We have agreed to talk in February."
The UTE pays a fee of 300,000 euros per year. When they won the contest in 2018, Anoet challenged it and they went to court.
The judge has dismissed the appeal of the employer and obliged to pay the costs of the process
.Zúñiga declared to this newspaper in summer "that he had 100% of the capacity to give a fair" which was finally canceled.
"In Zaragoza," he said, "there are four, five or six popular celebrations for which there are no fundamental bills.
to make the fair viable ".
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