Plaza de Toros Las Ventas (Madrid)

Inaugurated in 1931, Plaza de Toros Las Ventas in Madrid is the largest bullring in Spain and third-largest worldwide, featuring a distinct Neo-Mudéjar brick style with ceramic tiles representing Spanish provinces. This is also where the Beatles held their first concert in Spain when they came to Madrid in 1965. The rather uncomfortable stone seats are distinguished in price according to the amount of sunlight each gets, with the most expensive seats being in the sombra (shade), the cheapest under the sol (sun) and the midrange ones in the sol y sombra, or partial shade. The most diehard bullfighting aficionados sit in Tendido 7, under the sun.