🔴 [NUEVO CIRCO]: End of the bullfighting in Caracas

The Nuevo Circo of Caracas is a bullring located in the Libertador Municipality in the western area of the city of Caracas, Venezuela.

The beginning of its construction dates 17-01-1916, during the presidency of General Juan Vicente Gómez.

For its design and construction were commissioned the architects, Alejandro Chataing and Luis Muñoz Tebar.

This Nuevo Circo or bullring comes to replace the old Metropolitan Circus and for this it would take advantage of the space of the old municipal slaughterhouse.

The 26-01-1919 inaugurates the new bullring, with capacity for up to twelve thousand spectators and sporting a neo-Moorish style, which is a technique of concrete still experimental for the time.

This day, change the life style of the inhabitants of Caracas. The most important newspapers of the time, El Universal, the Religion and the New Journal, devoted its first page to this great event.

During the morning, acted two bullfighters of Bilbao, Spain, Serafin Vigiola "Torquito" and Alejandro Sáez "Ale".

In the evening, gave the opening of the film season, with the film El Conde de Monte Cristo, to be projected in a huge room.

In the years 1937, following the death of President Gómez, the Nuevo Circo is the protagonist of the count of the votes of one of the first popular elections realized in Venezuela.

In 1948, at the inauguration of President Romulo Gallegos, the Directorate of Culture of the Ministry of National Education, organizes the so-called "Fiesta de la Tradición", where they presented together for the first time, folkloric demonstrations of all the country.

Although this building was the main center of performances of the Venezuelan capital and for many years functioned as a theater, cinema, and hosted events of boxing and wrestling; in 1974 is moved, when it inaugurates the Poliedro de Caracas.

In 1987 the Cultural Heritage Institute declares it "Asset of Cultural Interest".

A decade later, closes its doors. The last bullfight taurine in Caracas was on March 2 and 29 June 1997, the last novillada.

Starting in 2005, through the Metropolitan Institute of Cultural Heritage of Caracas, recovers the facade and its original color, with a view to the building was an artistic and cultural center, a project by the architect restorer Luis Guillermo Marcano.

From 2009, at its facilities does the Endogenous Core of Cultural Development Nuevo Circo of Caracas, where they facilitate workshops of dance, theater, music, visual arts and circus arts to the community, additional have developed a variety of events where various proposals arts and cultural activities in the city of Caracas.

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