2023-10-16 16:08:29
Julián López Escobar ‘El Juli’ has been awarded the National Bullfighting Prize, corresponding to the year 2023, at the proposal of the jury meeting this Monday, October 16, as reported by the Ministry of Culture and Sports, which grants the award, endowed with 30,000 euros.
The jury has awarded the prize to ‘El Juli’ in the year of his farewell to the arena, in recognition of an “extraordinary” 25-year career, which has taken him, “from his beginnings as a child prodigy to establishing himself as a figure period in bullfighting.
Likewise, he highlighted “his involvement in the promotion and defense of the bullfighting festival and his social commitment to young people and the most disadvantaged through the School and Foundation he created.”
“The granting of this prize represents recognition of the teaching, both inside and outside the rings, of an essential reference in bullfighting of the 21st century,” adds the jury.
Julián López Escobar ‘El Juli’ (Madrid, October 3, 1982) is an essential reference in bullfighting for the last 25 years. Considered a child prodigy, he took his first steps in the bullfighting school in Madrid, under the guidance of Gregorio Sánchez and forged himself as a bullfighter in Mexico.
He took the alternative at the age of fifteen years and eleven months in the Nimes bullring with maestro Manzanares as godfather and Ortega Cano as witness. Throughout his long career he has achieved triumphs in bullrings in Spain, France, Portugal, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador or Venezuela, which has elevated him as one of the main figures in bullfighting of the 21st century.
With seven exits on his shoulders through the Puerta del Príncipe de la Real Maestranza, he says goodbye to the arenas, holding the record for this recognition in Seville.
In addition to his career in the bullrings, he carries out important work to promote and develop bullfighting through his Foundation, collaborating with different entities and participating in numerous solidarity projects, according to Cultura.
The jury was chaired by Isaac Sastre de Diego, general director of Cultural Heritage and Fine Arts. Carlos González-Barandiarán, deputy director general of Records and Documentation of Historical Heritage, acted as vice president, and Teresa Belmonte García, professor at the University of Almería, member of the ‘Laboratory of Social and Cultural Anthropology’ Research Group, acted as vice president; José Pedro Prados Martín ‘El Fundi’, representing the Union of Bullfighters; Mar Gutiérrez López, representing the National Association of Bullfighting Show Organizers; and David Prados Martín, representing the National Union of Spanish Picadores and Banderilleros.
Lucía Martín García, director of communication and institutional relations of the Royal Union of Bull Breeders of Fighting Bulls, has also acted as members; José Luque Teruel, president of the Bullring of the Real Maestranza de Caballería of Seville; Juan José Urquía García, president of the Las Ventas Veterinarians Association; Rosario Pérez Sánchez, bullfighting critic for the newspaper ABC; Juan Miguel Sánchez Vigil, professor of Documentation at the Complutense University of Madrid and editor, photographer and graphic documentary maker; Encarnación Sabel Soriano Vegas, cultural manager; Fátima Halcón Álvarez-Ossorio, professor of Art History at the University of Seville; and Pilar González del Valle García de la Peña, member of the Bullfighting Peña ‘Los de José y Juan’ and Antonio Miura Martínez, rancher, Gold medal for Merit in Fine Arts 2022.
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