“Thank you to the people of Camas who have always had true affection for me, and I can’t take it anymore.” These were the brief and heartfelt words that the bullfighter Curro Romero spoke this Saturday moments after he unveiled the bust that the City Council has dedicated to him at the doors of the bullfighting club that bears his name.
The maestro, a favorite son of his hometown, who turns 92 on December 1, and who has been retired from the bullring since October 2000, arrived in a wheelchair, visibly moved, and was accompanied by his wife, Carmen Tello, and a large representation of bullfighters and fans.
The sculpture is a bust that faithfully reproduces the bullfighter’s gesture, and is authored by the Sevillian artist Martín Lagares, who also sculpted the monument to Antonio Chenel Antoñete that was inaugurated on October 12 in front of the Puerta Grande de Las Ventas, at the initiative of Morante de la Puebla.
The mayor of the Sevillian town, Víctor Ávila, highlighted that this act “pays tribute to an unrepeatable career, to an artist who carried the name of Camas throughout Spain and around the world.”
This was the third public event that the bullfighter attended after being discharged on September 27 from the Virgen Macarena hospital in Seville with pneumonia. In November he traveled twice to Jerez de la Frontera to attend the funerals of the bullfighter Rafael Paula and the rejoneador Álvaro Domecq.