Pamplona Bullfights Tickets

Bullfight Tickets

Pamplona Bullfight Tickets are available in limited supply from us as we offer them to our All-Inclusive Package clients. Sometimes sell them directly to clients who have not purchase a San Fermin Package from us and are soley looking for Pamplona Bullfight tickets with a supplement included in the price. Our All-Inclusive packages include bullfight tickets to Sol section in the Plaza del Toros, upgrades are available on a strictly 1st come 1st served basis. Upgrades can be to either Sol y Sombra (Sun & Shade) and Sombra (Shade). 

Sun & Shade Seating

Seating in the shade are located in the sections 1, 2, and 3. Sections 4 & 7 share both Sol y Sombra depending on the time of day. As the sun is quite strong during the bullfights, these seats are well sought after and are more expensive.

Here, you can enjoy the bullfight without any distractions as aficionados of bullfighting normal have their season ticket seats in these zones. Punctuality is very important, so make sure you arrive on time by being in your seat by 18.15 well before the 18.30 start of the 1^st fight. These bullfight aficionados will not take likely to spectators being late & having to move to let you in to your seat. Once the bull is in the ring, it is not permitted to allow late-arrivals to take their seats until that bull is killed. I suggest hiring a cushion at €1 each to add to your comfort & easily found at any of the stalls inside the bullring.

Bullfighter in Pamplona

"Bullfights are not covered in the sports sections of newspapers, but in the "Culture" section, because it is not sport, it is arteor espectáculo, a show, like a play or a ballet or an opera." There are three stages that are also called "tercios." 

What is a Corrida/Bullfight

If you are not familiar to Corridas, you will find here listed chronologically everything that happens. So you may decide by yourself if you want to see one when you are visiting Spain. A Corrida starts with the paseillo, with everybody involved in the bullfight entering the ring and presenting himself to the public. 2 Alguacilillos, on horseback, direct themselves to the presidency & symbolically ask for the keys to the door or "puerta de los toriles". Behind that door are the bulls. Once the door is opened and the 1st bull enters the bullring, the spectacle starts. It consists of three parts, called tercios, being separated by horn-signals. There are three toreros in each Corrida, by the way, and each will have to torear/fight two bulls. In the 1st tercio the bullfighter uses the capote, a large cape, purple and yellow incolor. Later two picadores enter on horseback, armed with a sharp lance. The 2nd part is la suerte de banderillas. Three banderilleros have to stick a pair of banderillas into the attacking bull's back. In the 3rd & final part, the "suerte suprema" the bullfighter uses the muleta, a small red cape with his sword hidden behind. He then has to show his masterity/faena, to dominate the bull and to establish an artistical symbiosis between man and beast. The Corrida ends with the Torero killing the bull with his sword.

Bullfighting is certainly one of the best known, although at the same time most polemical Spanish popular customs. This Fiesta could not exist without the Toro Bravo, a species of bull of an archaical race that is only conserved in Spain. Formerly this bull's forebears, the primitive urus, were spread out over wide parts of the world. Many civilizations revered to them, the bull-cultus at the Greek island Crete is quite well-known. The Bible reports on sacrifices of bulls in honour to the divine justice. Also in the religious ceremonies of Iberian tribes living in Spain in prehistorical times bulls played an important part. The origins of the Plaza, bullring, probably are not the Roman amphitheaters but the Celt-Iberian temples where those ceremonies were held. In the province of Soria, close to Numancia, one of them is conserved and it is supposed that there bulls were sacrificed to the Gods. While the religious cults of the bull goes back to Iberians, it were the Greek and Roman influences that converted it into a spectacle. During the middle-ages it was a diversion for the aristocracy to torear on horseback. That was called  suerte de cañas. In 18^thcentury this tradition was more or less abandoned and the poorer population invented the bullfight by foot. Francisco Romero was a key-figure in laying the rules for that new sport. For fans of La Corrida it is of course verymuch so an art than a sport, not to mention the challenge between man against beast. It is an archaic tradition that has survived in this country, just as the Toro Bravo has done.