Juan Belmonte

Addresses you can still visit

Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.

• Lived here

  Juan Belmonte’s Birthplace

  Belmonte was born here in 1892 in premises occupied by his family’s small shop.

• Commemorated here

  Monument to Juan Belmonte

  The monument portrays Belmonte in his ceremonial cape overlooking the river and the Maestranza.

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  Performed here

  Plaza de Toros de la Real Maestranza

  Belmonte repeatedly fought here and became one of the defining figures of the Maestranza’s early-20th-century era.

• Burial place

  San Fernando Cemetery

  Belmonte is buried in the cemetery that also holds his great rival Joselito.