A day at the bullring... I mean, at the museums!!!

You probably saw the place on your way to the historic centre hundreds of times, but unless you are a bullfight passionate is possible you never realize that under the bullring there are 4 small but cosy museums waiting for your visit. 

The big parking area surrounding the building, the flexible timetable (Tuesday to Sunday of 9:00hs to 16:00hs) and the fact that they have free admission. Makes the visit to these museums something you have to do.

Palaeontology Museum:

Now that the movies show us (again) how difficult would be for us to survive in world dominated by dinosaurs, you can see some nice fossils without worry to become their next meal.

Opened in December 2000, with the primary objective of showing and disseminate both the scientific and the amateur fossil fauna richness Pliocene (about four million years ago) Estepona basin. This wealth is exceptional from every perspective, hence the large number of species present as the extraordinary preservation of fossils, which in some cases have even the original color.

The exhibition consists of more than 2,000 fossils corresponding to some 600 species of Pliocene of Estepona, including plants, vertebrates, brachiopods, bryozoans, crustaceans, cnidarians (corals), echinoderms (sea urchins) and molluscs.

It is ultimately the most important European collection housed in a museum Pliocene to the same location, collection steadily increasing thanks to the research work developed from the museum.

Bullfighting Museum:

Like it or not, the Spanish tradition has been linked to bullfights. In this museum you can see photographs, costumes of famous bullfighters and other instruments of torture ... ups!

The Museum Taurino "Antonio Ordóñez" is dedicated to the great bullfighter who also was the first entrepreneur of Estepona bullring. 

It was inaugurated by his grandson, the famous bullfighter Francisco Rivera Ordonez.

In this museum you can admire many objects related to bullfighting, such as photographs of major bullfighters of all times, heads of bulls fought in memorable evenings, photos of scenes in the square became history, irons and Currency of the Spanish and Portuguese herds, a complete collection of bullfighting posters and, above all, different costumes donated by the best bullfighters in Spain.

Ethnographic Museum:

Its main purpose is to show and spread the lifestyle, customs, economy and other aspects of life of the inhabitants of the region of Estepona in recent centuries. It has a major exhibition of more than 2000 ethnographic objects. In addition to the various rooms, there is an audiovisual room, storage and restoration laboratory. 

The museum's exhibition space is divided into several themed rooms, in which the visitor is given ordering information following basic criteria: functionality implements.

Image and Sound Museum:

Opened in 2004, during the Spanish Film Week XVII of Estepona, the Museum pays tribute to Luis Garcia Berlanga, one of the most important directors in the history of Spanish cinema. Its various rooms invite us to take a tour of the history of cinema, music and comics. It consists of the following rooms: 

Room Maria Isbert: memories of film weeks held annually in Estepona dedicated to Spanish cinema as both the fantasy and horror. Collect posters, programs and memories of artists who have gone through Estepona. .- 

Passage of The Spring Musical: a journey through the history of music in Estepona through the most important concerts of the past decades, as well as a tribute to the musicians of Estepona. .- 

Edgar Neville Hall: review of the film from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century to the 90s thanks to a magnificent collection of cameras and assigned by the Brothers Cantos that collected over many years of love and dedication to cinema projectors.

How to get there:

Calle Matías Prats s/n. Plaza de Toros.

GPS: 36.417588, -5.157572


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