Summary
Barring a miracle or an equally unlikely political commutation, by the time that you read this edition of La Prensa San Diego, Plaza de Toros "El Toreo de Tijuana" will have been torn down and a large piece of Tijuana history will have been consigned either to dusty history or a new center of commercial enterprise. Somehow, Bullfight World anticipates the latter.
Naturally, it's only a case of pure coincidence that the decision to dismantle the bullring, ostensibly due to its faulty structural integrity, occurred just before the 2007 deadline date of 50 years, which would have preserved the plaza as a National Treasure monument. The timing rather defeated the definition of "coincidence", didn't it?In May of 1911, the plaza was burned to the ground, allegedly by Welsh mercenary Caryl Pryce, and was subsequently replaced by a new, slightly larger (capacity 2,500) plaza, on 5th and 6th streets and became the center of Tijuana's taurine activities in the 1920s and 1930s. It was officially inaugurated as Plaza El Toreo de Tijuana on July 3, 1938. Practically every great torero of the era performed in that historic plaza de toros.See the full content of this document
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A Sad Farewell to Plaza 'El Toreo' de Tijuana
Barring a miracle or an equally unlikely political commutation, by the time that you read this edition of La Prensa San Diego, Plaza de Toros "El Toreo de Tijuana" will have been torn down an...
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