DATES ON WHICH BULLFIGHTS WILL ORDINARILY BE HELD IN SPAIN, FRANCE, MEXICO, AND CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
January
Bullfights every Sunday in Mexico City, Lima, Peru, and Caracas, Venezuela.
On January 1st there is always a fight at San Luis de Potosi in Mexico.
In the states of Tampico, Vera Cruz, Torreon, Puebla, Leon, Zacatecas, Ciudad Juarez, and Monterey occasional fights will be given on Sundays.
In Casablanca in Spanish Morocco one or more bullfights are given on Sundays in January.
Valencia, Maracay, and Maracaibo in Venezuela give occasional fights on Sundays.
Cartagena de Indias in Colombia also usually has fights in January.
February
Bullfights every Sunday in Mexico City, Lima, and Caracas, and occasionally a benefit fight announced for a week day in Mexico City.
Formal fights or novilladas on Sundays in San Luis de Potosi, Ciudad Juarez, Puebla, Torreon, Monterey, Aguas Calientes, Tampico, Leon, Zacatecas in Mexico, and fights in Bogota, Baranquilla, and Panama in Central America.
Novilladas start in Madrid and Barcelona if the weather is favorable on Sundays and usually in Valencia.
March
Bullfights every Sunday in Mexico City and Caracas (Venezuela). Occasionally fights will be given in Malaga, Barcelona, and Valencia in March and there is always a fight at Castellon de la Plana for the fiestas of the Magdalena, which you may look up in any religious calendar.
Novilladas are usually given, weather permitting, every Sunday in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Zaragoza, and on one or two Sundays in Bilbao.
April
Bullfights on Easter Sunday at Madrid, Barcelona, Sevilla, Zaragoza, Malaga, Murcia, Granada.
On the Monday after Easter the first subscription fight starts in Madrid.
The feria at Sevilla starts within a week after Easter and has three fights on successive days.
25th, feria at Lorca.
29th, feria at Jerez de la Frontera.
Bullfights each Sunday after Easter in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, and novilladas on Sundays in Zaragoza, Bilbao, and usually at the minor rings of Vista Alegre and Tetuan de las Victorias in Madrid. If you go to either one be careful not to have your pocket picked.
May
If Easter is early and Corpus Christi comes in May there will be bullfights on that day in Madrid, Sevilla, Granada, Malaga, Toledo, and Bilbao, possibly also at Zaragoza.
May 2 — Bilbao, Lucena.
May 3 — Bilbao, Figueras, Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
May 4 — Puertollano, Jerez de los Caballeros.
Between May 8 and 10 — Ecija and Caravaca.
Between May 13 and 15 — Osuna and Badajoz.
May 15 — Madrid.
May 16 — Madrid and Talavera de la Reina.
May 17 — Madrid. These three fights are for the feria of San Isidro, patron of Madrid. There is no longer much of a feria but the fights remain.
May 18-19-20 — Ronda, Olivenza, Baeza.
May 21-22 — Zaragoza.
May 25-26 — Cordoba
May 30 — Aranjuez and Cáceres (novillada in Madrid).
May 31 — Cáceres, Teruel, and Antequera.
On the last Sunday in May there is usually a bullfight in the Roman arena in Béziers, France.
In May the season of the summer novilladas starts in Mexico.
June
Bullfights every Thursday and Sunday in Madrid and every Sunday in Barcelona.
June 2-4 — Trujillo.
June 9 — Placencia.
June 9 — 11 — Big fair at Algeciras — usually three fights.
June 13 — 17 — Feria at Granada — usually three fights.
June 22 — Avila.
June 24j — Tolosa, Medina del Rio Seco, Cabra, Barcelona, Zafra, Badojoz — Feria at Badajoz with two fights.
June 25 — Tolosa, Badajoz.
June 27-29 — Feria at Segovia — usually two fights.
June 29 — Alicante.
June 29-30 — Feria at Burgos — usually two fights.
July
First Sunday in July — Fights at Palma de Mallorca.
July 6 to 12 — Feria of San Fermín at Pamplona, with five fights on successive days, starting July 7. Amateur fights each morning at 7 o'clock. Bulls run through the street the mornings of all bullfights. Better be at the ring by six a.m. to buy seats in the boxes. Other seats are free and filled. Tickets may usually be bought the night before between 6 and 7 at the booths on the square.
July 14 — Bullfights at Bordeaux and Bayonne.
Between the 15th and 18th, fights at La Linea, near Gibraltar.
July 23 — Alcira. Usually a good fight.
July 25 — Big fight at San Sebastian and Santander. First fight of feria at Valencia, where there will be seven to nine fights on successive days until and through August 2.
The first Sunday of July there is a fight at Nîmes, France.
All through July there will be novilladas on every Thursday or Sunday, on which formal fights are not given, in Madrid or Barcelona. The big ferias, not to be missed, are Pamplona and Valencia.
August
On August 2 there is a feria at Vitoria, with three fights on successive days, and another at La Coruña, also with three fights. Vitoria is easily reached by motor in three hours from the French frontier at Hendaye. In case of a Sunday coming opportunely these fights will sometimes start as late as the 4th or 5th.
Between August 2 and 5 there are fights at Santander, San Sebastian, Cartagena, and Tomellosa.
Between the 8th and 10th there is a feria at Pontevedra in Galicia, usually with only one fight.
August 10 — Manzanares.
August 15, 16, and 17 is the Grande Semaine at San Sebastian, with three successive fights on those days. In case of Sunday coming earlier or later the fights may be on the 14th, 15th, and 16th, promoters always trying to bring one of the series of fights in a feria on a Sunday.
On August 15 and 16 there are also ferias at Gijon, Badajoz, and Almendralejo, with two fights each and single fights on those days at Puerto de Santa Maria (15th), Palma de Mallorca (15th), Jaén, Tafalla, and Jatiba (15th). Tafalla can be reached from Biarritz in 4 1/2 hours by car.
August 16 — Orihuela, Burgode, Osma, and Jumilla.
August 17 to 20 — Ciudad Real, Sanlucar, Toledo, Malaga, Antequera, and, sometimes, Guadalajara.
August 21 — The summer fair at Bilbao starts with usually five successive fights. During this week there are fights on Sunday at San Sebastian, Oviedo, Almagro — two fights, As-torga, two fights (24th and 25th), Almeria, two fights, usually the 26th and 27th, Tarazona de la Mancha (24th), Alcala de Henares (25th).
August 28 — Tarazona de Aragon and Toro. San Sebastian if it is a Sunday.
August 28 to August 30 — Malaga, Puerto de Santa Maria, Linares, Colmenar Viejo (sometimes two fights).
August 29 — Malaga (second fight of feria).
August 30 — Linares (second fight of feria).
August 31 — Calahorra, Pequena, Constantina.
All of August there will be novilladas in Madrid and Barcelona and usually Zaragoza and Valencia every Sunday and usually every Thursday. The big fairs from a bullfighting standpoint in August are those of Bilbao and San Sebastian. If you want to see country go to Colmenar Viejo, Astorga or Toro.