“I want to do the bullfight that I feel like and do it by directing the bullfight”

Aarón Palacio remembers the visits he made with his school to the enclosure that was the residence of the Muslim kings and the Catholic Kings, and in front of the figure of Goya, he could not help but express his first wish for the future: to participate in the bullfight that takes place to commemorate the hundred years of the first Goyesque festival, celebrated in Zaragoza on May 12, 1927. On this occasion, the institutions and the people embarked on a day marked by devotion to Goya, all under the wise hand of another great painter, Ignacio Zuluaga.

“That afternoon Nicanor Villalta represented Aragonese bullfighting, in this one why not me”, as he stops in front of the bullfighting engravings on display before entering the throne room. “I fulfilled the dream of a top alternative in one of the best places, but I arrived there as one of the most important bullfighters, all hard-earned afternoons. And so, with hard work, dreams come true.

Doctoral day in Nîmes in the hands of King Rock and before Pablo Aguado It was the first step as a bullfighter. The next day, a bullfight at Fuente Ymbro awaited him in Logroño. Triumph without turning your head to replace Roca and taste success again in a face-to-face with Diego Urdiales. The fourth bullfight took place in Zaragoza, where he offered a projection of the future. “Four afternoons of vital importance and all four different, both for the audience and for me. I have the Zaragoza thorn, which despite having two ears I did not come out on my shoulders, although it was one of those afternoons that leaves a positive mark on you.

“Taking advantage of the next campaign is crucial to position myself where I want to be, which is to be bullfighting figure, take the place of the bullfighters who gave me the alternative. Being at fairs, fighting many afternoons, doing the bullfighting that one feels and doing it by commanding the bullfighting”, he expresses sincerely in front of the figure of Ferdinand VII the bullfighter who mobilizes many followers, not only in his native Aragon, and is considered a young man of his time. “I like to be with my usual friends, I listen to pop music, even reggaeton, although when I bullfight I am inspired by flamenco and rancheras, and sometimes I tell myself that I am sick because I talk nonsense with the bull.

The bullfighter Five Villas, Born twenty years ago in Biota, a town in Zaragoza, he had to fight in an environment hostile to bullfighting. “When I had in front of me someone who did not understand it, I attracted him, so that he would know this world closely and let him decide.” Thus, even with his mother, his greatest success against an anti-bullfighting man. “He was free to oppose bullfighting and now he comes with me, he knows and reads a lot about bullfighting, he does research and he even takes a liking to bullfighting. This is often the case ignorant and she criticizes herself without knowing it, this is what happened to my mother, who spent her whole life against a world that she now values ​​and respects, and even comes to see me on the square.

In Aragon there is a moment where three bullfighters excite the fans as they did many years ago. Last season there was the historic event of three Aragonese bullfighters present at the Seville and Madrid fairs. Now, Aarón Palacio and Cristiano Torres, already matadors, and El Mene face the alternative. “The three of us are the visible tip of a whole movement that exists in Aragon and to which the bullfighting schools have contributed. The three of us are the mirror of all the children who sign up for classes. In addition, there is here lots of taurine health, There’s a lot of future and the fact that all three of us are fighting for the copper makes the fans want to see us. The fact that we are three right-handed bullfighters so young and so passionate makes bullfighting move here”, but with the nuance that “I have always said that I am an Aragonese bullfighter, but not only from Aragon, I want to be one at world level”.

Mobilize supporters

“I feel about bullfighting the same way I did when I first picked up a muleta. I try to do classic bullfighting, bullfighting with truth. “I value doing what comes from within, not doing things for the sake of quick success, but being true to myself every afternoon.” All with an obvious technical improvement, and maintaining one of its values, the connection with the public inside and outside the square. “I try to be a normal person, which is already a compliment, people enjoy seeing a child nearby and I feel supported even if they are not in my environment. “I am proud to mobilize the supporters and I hope to be able to do it for many years, that would be the best sign.”

A square? “Zaragoza is a reference, I felt inexplicable sensations there, which are never forgotten. Like in Madrid, Seville or Nîmes, where I triumphed. A poster? “I don’t close myself to any position, but Jandilla… I would get Morante, my bullfighter since I was a child, for an afternoon with Roca Rey, the one who occupies the place we all desire.”

The 2026 season awaits us. “I think of confirmation, but all without madness, my career has always been based on moving slowly and now is not the time to run. I trust my team -with Miguel Cuartero, his teacher since he enrolled at the Mar de Nubes school, and The Tato-, And although I don’t know what the campaign will look like, I would like to start in Olivenza and Fallas (his name does not appear in the trailers) and end in Zaragoza, but not only this year, the next twenty”, he concludes.