{"id":224,"date":"2024-09-25T09:38:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T07:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testdesarrollo.es\/ciudad\/route-1\/visita-21\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T08:57:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T06:57:58","slug":"visit-21","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ciudaddelosrecuerdos.cordoba.es\/en\/route-1\/visit-21\/","title":{"rendered":"21 Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>21 Visit: Rafael Gonz\u00e1lez Madrid \u201cMachaquito\u201d<\/h1>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/ciudaddelosrecuerdos.cordoba.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1_visita21_machaquito.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"853\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"boxAudio\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ciudaddelosrecuerdos.cordoba.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/iconoaudio.png\" width=\"55\" style=\"margin-right:20px;\"><audio controls><source src=\"https:\/\/ciudaddelosrecuerdos.cordoba.es\/audios\/en\/Ruta1_Visita21_ENG.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Rafael Gonz\u00e1lez Madrid \u201cMachaquito\u201d (1880-1955),<\/strong>\u00a0lacked the finesse of other \u201cCalifas,\u201d although in time his technique improved, but he was a torero of great will and he was extraordinary efficient when entering to kill. His main competitor was \u201cBombita\u201d, who he took over on September 16, 1900. On May 9, 1907 in Madrid, he killed a bull in a masterly way and the columnist \u201cDon Modesto\u201d asked the sculptor Mariano Benlliure to immortalise the moment and that\u2019s where the sculpture \u201c The afternoon sword Thrust \u201c comes from. In 1910 the newspaper \u201c Los Toros\u201d chose him as the best matador of the time after a survey involving 49,120 people. He retired in 1913. He killed 2155 bulls.<\/p>\n<p>In the tomb you can see a bronze portrait of the bullfighter, which was also made by Mariano Benlliure, whose inscription reads \u201cTo Rafael Gonz\u00e1lez Madrid, from his friend M. Benlliure, 12\/1\/1908. \u201c He was friends wit Benito Perez Galdos. He received the Charity Cross for his performance in 1902 in Hinojosa del Duque (C\u00f3rdoba), where a part of the ring collapsed causing the spectators to fall into the ring, with the obvious danger that the bull could cause, then Machaquito went towards the bull and killed it one great thrust, therefore preventing a possible tragedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21 Visit: Rafael Gonz\u00e1lez Madrid \u201cMachaquito\u201d Your browser does not support the audio element. Rafael Gonz\u00e1lez Madrid \u201cMachaquito\u201d (1880-1955),\u00a0lacked the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":151,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-224","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciudaddelosrecuerdos.cordoba.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciudaddelosrecuerdos.cordoba.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciudaddelosrecuerdos.cordoba.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciudaddelosrecuerdos.cordoba.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciudaddelosrecuerdos.cordoba.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ciudaddelosrecuerdos.cordoba.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/ciudaddelosrecuerdos.cordoba.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224\/revisions\/518"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciudaddelosrecuerdos.cordoba.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciudaddelosrecuerdos.cordoba.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}