Pablo Lozano
{{Short description|Spanish bullfighter and cattle rancher (1932–2020)}}
{{family name hatnote|Lozano|Martín|lang=Spanish}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}}
Pablo Lozano Martín (29 August 1932 — 29 October 2020), commonly known as La Muleta de Castilla, was a Spanish bullfighter and fighting bull cattle rancher, owner of cattle raising {{ill|Alcurrucén|es|Alcurrucén (ganadería)}} and "Hermanos Lozano".
Biography
=Career as bullfighter=
File:PabloLozanoNovillero1953.png in 1953. The original caption said that Lozano left this bull calf "without appendages" (that is, he was awarded both ears and the tail as trophies).]]
Lozano was born in Alameda de la Sagra, Province of Toledo, Spain in a wealthy Toledan family on 29 August 1932{{Cite journal|url=https://www.aplausos.es/fallece-pablo-lozano/|journal={{ill|Aplausos|es|Aplausos (revista)}}|title=Fallece Pablo Lozano|date=29 October 2020|language=es}} and began in the world of bullfighting in the summer of 1949 and premiered on 26 August of that year in Orgaz's bullring while he was training as a novillero (novice bullfighter). He made his debut with picadors in the bullring of Mora, Toledo a month later, on 16 September 1949 and presented himself to the fans of Toledo a few days later, on 28 September, with a bullfight of the Eugenio Ortega bull-ranch, from Añover de Tajo.{{Cite journal|url=https://www.latribunadetoledo.es/noticia/Z95B743C4-AE00-A191-32505C437DEDADFB/202010/Muere-Pablo-Lozano-decano-de-los-toreros-toledanos|journal=La Tribuna de Toledo|title=Muere Pablo Lozano, decano de los toreros toledanos
|date=29 October 2020|language=es}} Lozano took the alternative on 25 September 1951 in La Monumental bullring in Barcelona with Luis Miguel Dominguín as godfather and {{ill|Manuel González Cabello|es}} and José María Martorell as witnesses. La Vanguardia reported that day The young bullfighter toasted the audience and wasted his will throughout the course of a somewhat nervous muleta mane, ending with a jab without abandoning the steel and a whole volapié slightly detached.{{Cite journal|url=http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1951/09/26/pagina-11/32806409/pdf.html?search=pablo%20lozano|journal=La Vanguardia|title=Alternativa de Pablo Lozano|date=26 September 1951|language=es}} He confirmed his alternative in Las Ventas, Madrid on 18 May 1952.
He retired in 1963 to dedicate himself to other facets of the bullfighting world.{{Cite book|surname=Cortés, Pilar|title=Cossío: los toros. Inventario biográfico|year=2007|publisher=Espasa-Calpe|isbn=|editor=|place=Madrid|page=78|language=es|volume=16}}
=Career as cattle rancher and businessman=
From the 1960s onwards, Pablo Lozano, together with his brothers, was in charge of the "Alcurrucén" cattle ranch. An agricultural exploitation, destined to the breeding of the fighting bull, which he bought in 1967 from the heirs of the Salamanca cattle breeder Juan Sánchez Tabernero and which, at present, graze between the provinces of Cáceres and Toledo.{{Cite book|title=El toro de lidia español: castas fundacionales, encaste y ganaderías|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1091712798|isbn=978-84-16319-66-4|oclc=1091712798|surname=García Sánchez, Julián Tomás|year=2018|page=318|publisher=Entorno Gráfico Ediciones |language=es}} Likewise, at present this cattle farming is considered as one of the maximum exponents of the {{ill|Encaste Núñez|es}} and has been a winner, on repeated occasions as one of the bravest cattle ranches of the {{ill|San Isidro Fair|es|Feria de San Isidro}} in Madrid.{{Cite journal|url=https://www.elmundo.es/cultura/toros/2018/05/19/5afd90a046163fba748b462a.html|journal=El Mundo|title=Alcurrucén, la ganadería talismán de Madrid|date=19 May 2018|first=Lucas|last=Pérez|language=es}} Likewise, since 2006, he was one of the co-owners of the second cattle farming owned by the family, "Hermanos Lozano".{{Cite journal|url=https://www.elmundo.es/cultura/2016/03/30/56fab186e2704ee70d8b463e.html|journal=El Mundo|title= Alcurrucén: "Una ganadería se mide en las grandes ferias"|date=30 March 2016|first=Mario|last=Gómez|language=es}}
Pablo Lozano had an active career in the world of management and operation of bullrings in Spain and America.{{Cite journal|url=https://www.abc.es/espana/castilla-la-mancha/toledo/pueblos/abci-pablo-lozano-alameda-sagra-cielos-taurinos-202010292255_noticia.html|journal=ABC.es|title=Pablo Lozano: de Alameda de la Sagra a los cielos taurinos|date=29 October 2020|first=Juan Antonio|last=Pérez|language=es}} With his brothers, he was co-owner of the company Toresma II.{{Cite journal|url=https://www.abc.es/cultura/toros/20130515/abci-homenaje-lozano-201305151832.html|journal=ABC.es|title=Madrid rinde homenaje a los Lozano por su obra empresarial y ganadera|date=15 May 2013|language=es}} In 1989, they were awarded by the Community of Madrid the exploitation of the Las Ventas bullring, where Pablo Lozano was especially in charge of the selection and contracting of cattle ranches.{{Cite journal|url=https://elpais.com/diario/1989/11/18/cultura/627346812_850215.html|journal=El País|title=Las Ventas adjudicada a los hermanos Lozano|date=18 November 1989|last=Vidal|first=Joaquín|language=es}}{{Cite journal|url=https://elpais.com/diario/1995/05/23/cultura/801180007_850215.html|journal=El País|title="Algunos toreros prefieren que el toro no embista"
|date=23 May 1995|first=Juan|last=Mora|language=es}} In 2002, they again won the tender for the awarding of the contract.{{Cite journal|url=https://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2002/12/09/toros/1039439664.html|journal=El Mundo|title=Los Lozano seguirán al frente de la plaza de Las Ventas|date=9 December 1989|language=es}}
They managed the bullring until 2004 when the public tender was won by José Antonio Martínez Uranga{{Cite journal|url=https://elpais.com/diario/2006/07/03/espana/1151877601_850215.html|journal=El País|title=San Román controla Las Ventas tras una polémica concesión de Esperanza Aguirre|date=3 July 2006|first=Carlos E.|last=Cué|language=es}} and in 2006 the Supreme Court annulled the 2002 concession after being appealed by two businessmen.{{Cite journal|url=https://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2006/01/18/toros/1137596583.html|journal=El Mundo|title=Anulada la última concesión de Las Ventas a los Lozano|date=19 January 2006|language=es}}
He was one of the most representative managers ("apoderados") of the sector, managing the professional careers of some important bullfighters such as Curro Romero, {{ill|Palomo Linares|es}}, {{ill|Juan Antonio Ruiz «Espartaco»|es}}, César Rincón, {{ill|Manuel Caballero (torero)|es}}, {{ill|Vicente Barrera Simó|es}}, Eugenio de Mora, {{ill|Sebastián Castella|es}}, José María Manzanares (the elder and the younger){{cite web
| url = https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/pablo-lozano-martin
| title = Pablo Lozano Martín
| last = Ramón Carrión
| first = José Luis
| date = 2018
| website = dbe.rah.es
| publisher = Real Academia de la Historia
| access-date = 14 August 2024
| language = es
}} and in his last years of Álvaro Lorenzo.{{cite web
| url = https://informados.es/tauromaquia/fallece-d-pablo-lozano-martin-torero-apoderado-empresario-y-ganadero/
| title = Fallece D. Pablo Lozano Martín (torero, apoderado, empresario y ganadero)
| date = 29 October 2020
| website = informados.es
| publisher = Informados
| access-date = 14 August 2024
| language = es
| author1 = Julián
}}
"Pablo Lozano" pasodoble
As a result of his success as a bullfighter in the 1950s, Lozano even had his own pasodoble, dedicated to him by the composer Lázaro Nájera. A composition, prepared for band, which ran with the instrumentation for this type of musical formation by Santiago Berzosa.{{Cite book|url=https://bibliotecadigital.jcyl.es/es/consulta/registro.cmd?id=16116|website=Digital Library of the Junta of Castile and León|title=Pablo Lozano : pasodoble torero (1950) - Nájera, Lázaro|year=1950 |publisher=R. de Llano |language=es}}
Personal life and death
Pablo Lozano was widowed when his wife, with whom he had three children: Pablo, Luis Manuel and Fernando, died in April 2008.{{Cite journal|url=https://www.elcorreo.com/vizcaya/20080427/la-rioja/familia-taurina-lozano-esta-20080427.html|journal=El Correo|title=La familia taurina de 'los Lozano' está de luto|date=27 April 2008|language=es}} The first two sons are also bullfighters and manage bullrings such as the Toledo's.{{Cite journal|url=https://www.latribunadetoledo.es/noticia/z6036e2d8-9a6a-34f5-7d63fdb839d4a421/toledo-sin-corpus-y-sin-toros|journal=La Tribuna de Toledo|title=Toledo sin Corpus… y sin toros|date=27 April 2020|language=es}}
He died on 29 October 2020, at the age of 88, in Madrid from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain.{{Cite journal|url=https://elpais.com/cultura/2020-10-29/fallece-por-coronavirus-el-veterano-taurino-pablo-lozano.html|journal=El País|title=Fallece por coronavirus el veterano taurino Pablo Lozano|date=29 October 2020|language=es}}
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