The bullring

It is the oldest in the Valencian Community, as it was inaugurated on July 20, 1844. It is a unique and singular piece due to its originality, as it is excavated for the most part in living rock.

The mountainous configuration of the terrain gives the square a peculiar distribution that allows access on level ground to both the drag gate and the presidential box at the highest. Its current capacity is 3,760 seats. It has 6 corrals, a slaughterhouse, an infirmary and a chapel.

Before the current bullring, there are reports of bulls in the street in Bocairent in the 17th and 18th centuries, and of the annual installation, from April to October, of a wooden bullring, at least since 1832. Although a romantic and charming story attributes the idea of ​​building the square dug into the rock to a crisis in the textile industry, the idea of ​​a businessman to mitigate the effects and the voluntary work of the workers who changed the shuttles for picks and shovels, the creation is due, on the other hand, to several factors: the problems of assembling and safety of the wooden square, the consolidation of a notable economic recovery in the municipality, the interest of the Municipal Hospital in achieving a stable source of income, the local fondness for bullfighting shows and the common will of a large group of local businessmen, industrialists, commercialists and professionals.

To this end, a group of 77 shareholders who owned the square was formed, which directed the construction and subsequent administration. The work began in 1843 and the square, although it only had nine stands at the time, was inaugurated in 1844, expanding and consolidating itself in the following two years.

This square has always been the birthplace of bullfighting and a springboard for bullfighting in other larger squares. Bullfighting figures of all times have passed through it. Bullfighting festivals are still held today, in addition to cultural, sporting and festive activities.