Chapter 213 The Development of Bullfighting Competition

In fact, bullfighting activities held by the royal family and simultaneously across Spain have already begun since March 1877.

It is called an activity, but it is actually a nationwide competition of Spanish bullfighters. This competition will select the best bullfighters in Spain, and Carlo will personally award them the title of Spanish Royal Bullfighter.

Because the selection is carried out across Spain, the first four months of the bullfighting competition are held in various regions. The purpose is also to conduct the first round of screening in various regions and select those more outstanding bullfighters to go to Madrid for the second round of the final.

It is currently April, which is the hottest season for bullfighting in Spain.

In Carlo's plan, bullfighting is a national activity related to the combat effectiveness of the Spanish army. It can not only provide an entertainment activity for the Spanish people to vent their emotions, but also cultivate the aggressive and fearless spirit of the Spanish nation.

This year is the first year of the national bullfighting competition, and Carlo is still quite concerned about it.

In mid-April 1877, Carlo brought a group of Spanish officials to watch the bullfighting competition in the Madrid region with great fanfare, and praised the bullfighters who performed well in the bullfighting competition.

According to the rules of the bullfighting competition, from March to July each year, the regions will conduct preliminary screening and decide the time for the final ten to go to Madrid to participate in the second round of competition.

The main reason for this regulation is to make the bullfighting competition nationwide. If the competition is only held around Madrid, it will be difficult to radiate the influence of the bullfighting competition to the whole of Spain.

Although Madrid is the largest city in Spain, its geographical location is not as good as Barcelona's except for the advantage of being located in the center of Spain.

Barcelona is a port city in Spain, and the surrounding areas are mostly plains and hills, which will hardly affect the development of the city.

Madrid is surrounded by mountains on all sides, which not only affects the development of the city, but also makes it difficult for Spain to have any large cities within dozens of kilometers.

To the west of Madrid is the huge Central Mountain Range, to the east is Cuenca Mountain, to the north is the endless Meseta Plateau, and to the south is the Toledo Mountain.

It is in this area between these mountains that Madrid, the largest city in Spain, was born. But it is precisely because Madrid is located between many mountains that its development has been restricted.

There are many mountains and plateaus, which is why Spain lags behind other European powers in national development.

Although Spain has an extremely vast territory, the huge Meseta Plateau is located in the central and northern regions of Spain, turning large tracts of land in Spain into mountains and deserts that are not suitable for development.

Spain is also the only country in Europe with mountains. The Bennas Desert is located between the Morena Mountains and the Penivetico Mountains. The two mountains in the north and south block the humid climate from the ocean. Coupled with the drought and lack of rain, a desert area has been formed here.

The Bennas Desert is a relatively unique natural landscape in Spain and even in the whole of Europe. Because it is similar to the geographical environment of the southwestern United States, it has attracted many Hollywood crews to come here for filming in later generations.

The famous movies "Once Upon a Time in the West" and "A Fistful of Dollars" were both filmed in Spain, and even more than 40% of the movies describing the western United States have been filmed in the Bennas Desert.

From this aspect, it can be seen that owning this desert is not a bad thing for Spain. The area of ​​the Bennas Desert is only 280 square kilometers, which is only the size of a few towns. On the contrary, it can make Spain's geographical environment richer and attract tourists from Europe.

Carlo still obviously underestimated the appeal of bullfighting in Spain. This national bullfighting competition held by Carlo can be said to have attracted the attention of most Spaniards.

The Madrid region will naturally select the top ten best bullfighters to participate in the competition before the second round of the competition. Whether it is a bullfight held in Plaza Lerta or in other bullrings, it can attract a large number of Spaniards' attention and arrival.

This also makes every bullfight almost full, and also drives the commercial development near the bullring.

Take Plaza Lerta, the largest bullring in Spain, as an example. Plaza Lerta can accommodate more than 3,500 spectators at most, and bullfights are held almost every day in recent times.

The ticket revenue brought by the daily bullfighting competitions alone has made Plaza Lerta a huge profit.

Part of this will be converted into taxes, allowing the Madrid City Government to earn more income.

Not to mention that these tourists buy food and drinks around the square and other consumption, which can drive economic development.

Although most tourists don't spend much money, the role of currency circulation in the economy is not just the surface value of currency.

More importantly, such economic circulation is carried out every day. Just because of the holding of this bullfighting event, Spain's economic development speed will be much faster than the same period last year.

This is the premise that Spain does not have a large bullfighting arena. When the construction of the large bullfighting arena in Spain is completed, a bullfighting event will have nearly 10,000 spectators.

The economic boost of these nearly 10,000 spectators will be several times higher than now. With the holding of bullfighting competitions every year, Madrid's economic development will also take a fast track and take off in a short time.

After watching two bullfights, Carlo did not go to the Plaza de Lerta to watch again.

It was not that Carlo was not interested in bullfights, but that every time Carlo came, it would affect the schedule of ordinary spectators to watch bullfights.

In order to ensure Carlo's safety, when Carlo watched the bullfights, the guards would impose martial law on the Plaza de Lerta, and only allow a small number of spectators who had been searched and checked to enter.

The public may not be dissatisfied once or twice, but if they come more often, the public will definitely have other ideas.

This is also due to the fact that the Plaza de Lerta was not designed to consider the fact that members of the royal family would come to watch in person.

In theory, when such a large bullring is built, several places similar to boxes will be specially built and separated from the ordinary audience seats.

This will not only ensure the privacy and safety of the boxes, but also will not affect the ordinary audience from watching the bullfights.

These boxes are prepared for more distinguished guests. Ordinary spectators can of course buy box tickets, but the price is generally expensive and requires certain qualifications, which not everyone can buy.

Carlo had already considered this.

The large bullring built by the royal family on the outskirts of Madrid will accommodate nearly 10,000 spectators, including ten large and small boxes.

The largest of these boxes can accommodate more than 20 spectators, and the smallest can accommodate more than 5 spectators, and has its own exclusive passage, without the need to use the passage for ordinary spectators.

This is also the place designed by Carlo for himself, his family and the nobles to watch the bullfighting competition. Of course, capitalists can also buy tickets to enter the box to watch, but the ticket price will be more expensive, which is also where the bullring earns income.

Because this large bullring was built with the funds of the royal family, the ownership will of course belong to the royal family.

Carlo certainly cannot make too much profit from the people, and the only place to make money is in the box and some services that the bullring comes with.

After all, it is a large bullring that can accommodate nearly 10,000 people. There are also places to sell food and drinks inside the bullring, as well as large toilets distributed in different places in the bullring.

Although Carlo did not think that the bullring would be able to make a quick return after construction, he certainly would not mind if he could make money from capitalists and nobles.

Carlo never showed up again after watching two bullfights, but this did not hinder the Spanish people's enthusiasm for watching bullfights.

After the national bullfights were held for several months, bullfighting had formed an unstoppable heat in Spain, and the bullfighters with outstanding performance in various regions had become the hot stars in their regions, causing cheers and pursuits from the people.

It is worth mentioning that with Carlo's hosting of national bullfights, bullfighting also formed a wave of heat among the aristocracy.

Most of the nobles were just keen on watching bullfights, but a small number of nobles chose to join directly and become a brave and fearless bullfighter.

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This not only failed to stop the Spanish people's love for bullfighting, but also made more people curious and concerned about this national competition.

According to the royal family's statistics on bullfighting in various regions, in the first two months of the official bullfighting event, the total number of tickets sold in various regions exceeded 1.5 million.

Although this is only the number of tickets sold, it does not mean that there are 1.5 million people watching the bullfighting, but it can prove one thing, that is, the attention of the Spanish to the bullfighting has reached an extremely high level.

According to the size of the bullfighting arenas in various regions, except for Andalusia and Madrid, which have relatively large bullfighting arenas, other regions are only medium-sized bullfighting arenas with 1,000 to 2,000 seats.

In addition, there may not be bullfighting every day, and it is already a very exaggerated data to sell more than 1.5 million tickets in less than two months.

Depending on the seat, the price of bullfighting tickets is also different.

Take the ticket sales of Plaza Lerta in Madrid as an example. The farthest ticket is the cheapest, and the average ticket price does not exceed 10 cents, which is 0.1 pesetas.

The price of tickets in the best viewing area is several times that of the farthest seats, and the most expensive ones can even reach a high price of 1.25 pesetas.

Although the current per capita income in Spain has increased to more than 131 pesetas, a ticket of 1.25 pesetas is still the income of an ordinary person for three days of work, and most civilians will not waste so much money on a bullfight.

Most of the people who really buy these tickets for better viewing positions are middle-class or even capitalists and nobles.

In fact, the price of 1.25 pesetas itself is not expensive, and there is no need to feel bad for ordinary middle-class people, let alone capitalists and nobles with larger assets.

The price of bullfighting tickets is constantly changing. There are many factors that affect the ticket price, the most important of which is the fame of the bullfighters participating in the bullfight and the ferocity of the bulls prepared by the bullring.

The more fierce the bullfight, the more exciting the bullfight will be. Famous bullfighters can also attract more audiences to watch the game. After all, there is only one way for these bullfighters to attract attention, that is, to attract the audience's attention with more exciting bullfights.

These two points are factors that determine the excitement of the bullfight, which is why they can affect the ticket price of the bullfight.

Although this game was held by Carlo, it was actually in cooperation with the bullfighting arenas in various regions of Spain. The bullfighting arena owned by Carlo has not been built yet, and only the second round of the finals will be held in large bullfighting arenas after it is built.

The purpose of cooperating with the existing bullfighting arenas in these major regions is to quickly hold bullfighting competitions and help bullfighting activities develop better in various regions of Spain.

If it is only driven by the royal family, it will take longer time and more capital investment, and it will not be easy to develop rapidly without the participation of other capital.

Although doing so will give part of the profits to the bullfighting arenas in various regions, for Carlo, there is actually no loss.

Part of the money earned by these bullfighting arenas will be turned into taxes and handed over to the government to increase government revenue.

The money they earn will also be used to promote bullfighting matches and expand bullfighting arenas, etc., to help bullfighting matches to carry out a new round of publicity in Spain.

Coupled with the public opinion power of the newspaper owned by Carlo, this is also the reason why bullfighting activities quickly became popular with most Spaniards and became a great success.

Since the bullfighting competition has achieved initial success, the next thing to do is very simple, that is, to promote the ongoing bullfighting competition more vigorously, and at the same time expand the bullfighting arenas in various regions as much as possible to ensure that more spectators can be accommodated.

The more spectators watching the bullfighting competition, the more income it brings to the bullfighting arena and the royal family.

At present, the scale of bullfighting arenas in various regions is about 1,000 to 2,000 people, which is too small to cope with the enthusiasm of the people to watch bullfighting competitions.

Even in Madrid, where the scale of the bullfighting arena reaches 3,500 people, there will still be a situation where people cannot buy tickets.

In addition to the low ticket prices for bullfighting, the bullrings in various regions cannot accommodate more spectators, which means that most Spaniards can only watch the corresponding bullfighting information on the news and cannot witness it with their own eyes.

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