Alfonso Cela
This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Cela and the second or maternal family name is Vieito.
| Celita | |
|---|---|
 Celita circa 1914 | |
| Born |
Alfonso Cela Vieito July 11, 1885 Láncara, Lugo, Spain |
| Died |
February 26, 1932 (aged 46) Madrid, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
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
- ↑ "Centenario alternativa de Alfonso Cela "Celita"". taurophilos.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2015-08-23.
- ↑ "Cela Villeito, Alfonso, "Celita" (1886-1932)". mcnbiografias.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2015-08-23.
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