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Has died Joaquín Bernadó, the Catalan bullfighter who participated in more than 200 celebrations in Barcelona. Born in Santa Coloma de Gramanet in 1935, he inherited his love of bullfighting from his father, the first one who took him to see a bullfight. When he was still a child, his family moved to the Raval neighborhood in Barcelona, where he breathed the bullfighting environment in bars and taverns, where they hung posters of the Monumental and the Arenas. Those were times when there was no talk of abolition, and Barcelona was not yet an anti-bullfighting city.
Holder of the city medal, awarded in the 1980s by Maragall, he experienced the ban on bullfighting with great sadness: “For me, Catalonia is dead,” he said in a conversation with ABC in 2010.
Bernadó appeared in the capital in the old Chata, Carabanchel square, on April 25, 1953. His alternative came on March 4, 1956 in Castellón square, at the hands of Antonio Bienvenida and in the presence of Julio Aparicio. Carolo, by Manuel Arranz, was called the bull of the ceremony. That same year, on June 10, he ratified his doctorate in Madrid, with Mario Carrión and Joselito Huerta as godfather and witness. The bulls: from Pizarral.
immortalized a copy of Brown of the Cova in 1967, with an excellent job in April. Only the sword stood in the way of the great triumph, although he had to make two acclaimed laps of the ring. He fought intensely in America, especially in Mexico, and he himself proclaimed ‘the most international Catalan bullfighter‘.
Considered a bullfighter with fine manners, very elegant, every afternoon he left details of his class, such as master classes he gave at the Madrid School. “He captivated the fans with his elegance and his art,” summarized José Luis Suárez-Guanes in the tribute paid to Bernadó in Las Ventas on the occasion of his golden anniversary as a matador.