Alfonso Cela

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Cela and the second or maternal family name is Vieito.
Celita
Celita circa 1914
Born
Alfonso Cela Vieito

(1885-07-11)July 11, 1885
Láncara, Lugo, Spain
DiedFebruary 26, 1932(1932-02-26) (aged 46)
Madrid, Spain
NationalitySpanish

Alfonso Cela Vieito, known as Celita (July 11, 1885 – February 26, 1932), was a Spanish-Galician bullfighter. He is the only Galician to ever become a professional bullfighter.[1]

Biography

Celita was born in Carracedo, a small village in Láncara, Galicia, a region in the northwest of Spain. He moved to Madrid after the death of his father in 1896.

He began his career as a novillero (a bullfighter who only faces calves) in 1906 and took his alternativa (ceremony in which novilleros graduate to matador) in the bullfighting ring of A Coruña on 15 September 1912.[2]

His brother Claudio and nephew Alfonso Cela Martín (known as Cela II) were bullfighters as well but never reached professional level.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Centenario alternativa de Alfonso Cela "Celita"". taurophilos.com (in Spanish). 12 December 2012. Retrieved 2015-08-23.
  2. ^ "Cela Villeito, Alfonso, "Celita" (1886-1932)". mcnbiografias.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2015-08-23.


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