Bull breeder Joaquín Grave has announced the next Feria das Candeias de Mourão, the bullring that traditionally opens the bullfighting season in Portugal. Two festivals will take place on 1 and 4 February featuring promising and proven bullfighters from all levels of the bullfighting world. These are the combinations:
- Wednesday, February 1 (local holiday) - Festival de Juventude. António Raul Brito Paes. Cavaleiros praticantes: Diogo Oliveira, Tristão Ribeiro Telles and amador Francisco Maldonado Cortes, Forcados de Monsaraz, novilleros Diogo Peseiro and Eric Olivera and becerrista Gonçalo Alves.
- Saturday 4 February - Festival de Figuras. Murteira Grave. Cavaleiros: Luís Rouxinol Jr. and António Ribeiro Telles (son). Forcados de Santarém, bullfighter Domingo Lopez Chave, Manuel Dias Gomes, Tomás Rufo and novillero Manuel Caballero.
https://www.mundotoro.com/noticia/mourao-promesas-y-realidades-para-abrir-el-2023-en-portugal/1669568
