Bullrings and Bullfights in Jaen

Jaen city — Feria de San Lucas

San Lucas (18 October) is the capital’s great day and, in practice, the last feria that still matters on the Spanish poster. The civic fair usually fills the second and third weeks of October. The taurine abono is shorter: a novillada and two corridas spread across those weekends. In 2025 the fights ran 5, 12 and 18 October.

The ring is the Coso de La Alameda, next to the park of the same name. An earlier plaza of 1847 stood on the site. The present building saw its first fight on 18 October 1960 and was finished for 18 October 1962. Capacity is about 10,500. A mobile roof was tried in 1998 and later lost to wind; the ring is open again.

Map of Jaen bullring

Linares — Santa Margarita

Do not treat Linares as “dates on request”. The cycle is the Feria de San Agustin, in the last days of August. The plaza of Santa Margarita was built in 1866 and opened in 1867 with Gordito and El Panadero in front of a Miura string. It holds around 10,000 people.

This is the ring where Manolete was fatally gored by the Miura Islero on 28 August 1947. A plaque at the cuadrillas gate marks the afternoon. Linares still runs a Trofeo Manolete. Come for the feria if you want a fight; come any day if you want that piece of tauromaquia history.

Map of Linares bullring

Baeza and Ubeda

The two Renaissance towns sit minutes apart. Baeza’s ring is nineteenth-century; the usual date is the August fair, around 11 August in older calendars. Ubeda’s feria is San Miguel, late September into early October (in 2025 the billed fights were 28 September and 4 October). Pair either plaza with the UNESCO streets. The buildings are the day out; the cartel is extra.

Map of Baeza · Map of Ubeda

Andujar, Jodar, Alcala la Real

Andujar’s main cycle belongs to the September fair, not to a fixed 28 February. Recent posters have sat in the first week of September. Jodar is usually early September (around 4 September). Alcala la Real lines up with the Feria de San Mateo in the second half of September, not a locked 23rd.

Map of Andujar · Map of Jodar · Map of Alcala la Real

Villacarrillo, Villanueva del Arzobispo and La Puerta de Segura

Villacarrillo is a September fair town (mid-September in 2025), not an unlisted date. Villanueva del Arzobispo has held February dates in some years and September dates in others; do not lock 27 February. La Puerta de Segura is a different municipality from Segura de la Sierra. Its usual window is late September.

Map of Villacarrillo · Map of Villanueva del Arzobispo · Map of La Puerta de Segura

A square ring under the castle

Segura de la Sierra is the stop that is not like the others. The village sits inside the Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas, the largest protected area in Spain. The castle crowns the hill. On the way up, on the old parade ground and stables, is a rectangular bullring — the only one of that plan in Andalusia.

There are no conventional tendidos and no protective barrier in the modern sense. Spectators sit on the hillside. Admission to the Rosario fights has traditionally been free. A tower of the old wall, once the Gontar gate, serves as the infirmary. That is why the place is worth the mountain road even in a year with no cartel: it is a castle yard that still works as a ring.

Do not call it the oldest bullring in Spain. Campofrio, Bejar and Las Virtudes hold that argument. Call it one of the strangest. Fights, when they run, belong to the fiestas of the Virgen del Rosario, on 6 and 8 October. Confirm before you climb.

Map of Segura de la Sierra bullring