Will the Plaza de Toros rise from its ashes?

The city of the Strait wants to rehabilitate its Plaza de Toros, which saw the most famous bullfighters of their era perform, such as Manuel Benítez Pérez, better known to bullfighting enthusiasts as "El Cordobés". A commission has just been created, following a visit to the arena, under the chairmanship of the city's mayor, Fouad El Omari, and at the request of the Observatory for the Protection of the Environment and Historical Heritage of Tangier. "This commission is composed of representatives of the communal council, civil society, as well as the concerned public departments, with a view to carefully studying the possibility of rehabilitating this historical site," according to the town hall.Built at the end of the 1940s by the Spanish, before being inaugurated with great fanfare on 27 August 1950, the Plaza de Toros, property of the Tangier municipality, has been in a lamentable s…