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The businessman and rancher Jose Luis Pereda Lopez expands its bullfighting horizons with the acquisition of the Mérida bullring, an agreement that has been formalized with the previous owner and that is already effective, having taken possession of the bullring.
In this way, José Luis Pereda follows in the footsteps of his father, the recently deceased businessman of the same name, who acquired and revived the pLazo de la Merced in Roe. Pereda has the same purpose for the Cerro de San Albín bullring, as the Merida bullring is known, “for which he has plans that will enhance his bullfighting fair and economically strengthen the city of Mérida.” To this end, as reported in a statement, the gastronomic market which occupies the entire ground floor of the bullring, as well as the bullfighting museum with the intention of turning this building into a meeting point and cultural reference for the people of Merida.
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As a precedent for this new stage is the work carried out by this young businessman and rancher last season in the bullrings of Huelva and Almodóvar del Campo (Ciudad Real), where he scheduled fairs in a year still complicated by the pandemic.
Pereda wants to thank the previous owner, Vicente Elices Marcos, the trust placed to continue with a project that he started in 2014.
The Merida bullring began to be built in 1902 by the Extremadura Bullfighting Society and was inaugurated on July 5, 1914 by Tomás Alarcón ‘Mazzantinito’, Rodolfo Gaona and Francisco Posada with bulls from the Viuda de Concha y Sierra.