Morante de la Puebla, National Bullfighting Prize 2021

The Jury has unanimously agreed to award the 2021 National Bullfighting Prize to Morante de la Puebla for a brilliant season, in which he has achieved undeniable successes, setting the standard for bullfighting figures and new matadors with greater projection. . An exceptional career

of bullfighting. The jury has recognized 'Morante de la Puebla' for "the unique creative personality of an artist who recreates and renews classic bullfighting for today's public."

He also highlighted "his commitment to bullfighting at a particularly difficult time after the crisis caused

, in which the right-hander, assuming his responsibility as the leading figure of bullfighting, has diversified his performances, betting on the variety of encastes and posters, leading the bullfighting ranks in a season in which he has developed memorable tasks in the main Spanish squares ".

The National Bullfighting Prize, awarded by the Ministry of Culture and Sports, is intended to recognize the meritorious work of a person, entity or institution during the Spanish season of 2021 in the exercise of the different activities and manifestations of Bullfighting.

, duly motivated, it may also be awarded in recognition of a professional career, and is endowed with 30,000 euros.

The jury, chaired by the general director of Fine Arts, María Dolores Jiménez-Blanco Carrillo de Albornoz, and acting as vice president, the general deputy director of Records and Documentation of Historical Heritage, Carlos González-Barandiarán y de Muller; It has been formed by the members Borja Cardelús Carnicero, general director of the Fundación del Toro de Lidia, an entity awarded in 2020; Teresa Belmonte García, professor at the University of Almería and member of the Research Group 'Laboratory of Social and Cultural Anthropology'; José Pedro Prados Martín 'El Fundi', president of the Union of Bullfighters; Mar Gutiérrez López, general secretary of the National Association of Bullfighting Show Organizers; David Prados Martín, Secretary General of the National Union of Spanish Picadores and Banderilleros;María Jesús Gualda Bueno, president of the Lidia Livestock Association; José Luque Teruel, president of the Plaza de Toros de la Real Maestranza in Seville; María Belén Plaza Martín, director of the TVE bullfighting program 'Tendido Cero'; Marta Elena Alonso de la Varga, professor at the Veterinary Faculty of the University of León; María Amparo López Antelo, general director of the Interior of the Department of Presidency, Equality, Public Function and Interior of the Government of Navarra; María Teresa de Morenés y Urquijo, member of the female bullfighting club 'Las majas de Goya'; Jorge Fajardo Liñeira, President of the Union of Bullfighting Federations of Fans of Spain, and Santiago de León y Domecq, Lieutenant of Elder Brother of the Real Maestranza de Caballería de Sevilla,Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts 2020.

In previous years, the winners of this award have been:

2013: Paco Ojeda

2014: Canito

2015: Madrid Bullfighting School 'Marcial Lalanda'

2016: Victorino Martín

2017: Enrique Ponce

2018: Juan José Padilla

2019: National Bullfighting Forum

2020 : Fundación Toro de Lidia

2021: Morante de la Puebla

In the Spanish legal system, bullfighting is part of the cultural heritage worthy of protection throughout the national territory (art. 2 of Law 18/2013). As cultural heritage, an obligation is imposed on all public powers to guarantee its

and specifically establishes the legal obligation of the General Administration of the State to guarantee its conservation and promotion, as well as the obligation to protect the right of all to its knowledge, access and free exercise in its different manifestations (art. 5 of Law 18 / 2013).

In this way, in coherence with the condition of cultural heritage that the Law recognizes in Bullfighting and with the duty of the General State Administration to guarantee its conservation and promotion, the Ministry of Culture and Sports, holder of the powers of the Administration General of the State regarding the promotion and protection of Bullfighting (article 5.1 e of Royal Decree 509/2020, of May 5, which develops the basic organic structure of the Ministry of Culture and Sports) annually announces the National Prize for Bullfighting, intended to recognize the meritorious work of a person, entity or institution in the exercise of the different activities and manifestations of Bullfighting referred to in article 1 of Law 18/2013, of November 12, for the regulation of Bullfighting as a cultural heritage,thereby promoting the dissemination of its cultural values.

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