It is often repeated around here that we are all, more or less, chiclaneros. Those who were born here, those who settled here, those who put among us first or second residence. It is not surprising, given his love of bullfighting and his affectionate attachment to Chiclana, that Manuel Montes Mira signs these works as "El Chiclanero Montes".
Born in Peñarroya-Pueblonuevo (Córdoba), his academic and professional career took this mining engineer to Madrid in 1974, but, knowing and loving our coast, he moved to Chiclana in 1990, living here for long periods of time.
A restless person full of curiosity, it is understandable that he ended up being interested in the history of our city and that to it - here, but also and especially in the distance - he has dedicated hours and hours of study and research; research work that, if at first focused on bullfighting (part of which collects his Toreros Chiclaneros del XIX), soon expanded its thematic horizon.
From all this, we have selected several curiosities, as the title of this new Temporary Exhibition of the Museum of Chiclana says, the last one that opens this 2022 in which the Museum has offered to the public twenty-two Temporary Exhibitions. A total of fifteen curiosities that go through our local History from 1645, with the news of the first recognized bullfighter of Chiclana, until the photo of 1911 in which appears leaning out of the balcony of the house of Jose Redondo - that is to say, the headquarters of the Museum of Chiclana today - the also bullfighter Gallito. Between one and another date, the contribution to the Carlist Wars, to the installation of a bridge over the Iro, the Fair of Chiclana, the Battle of La Barrosa, the San Fernando-Chiclana tramway, etc...
Fifteen curiosities for the most curious public, small but tasty and, above all, documented buttons to show the patient work of this benefactor of our museum whose letter of introduction was the donation he made of the first edition of A dance in the Casa de Abrantes, the first work published by García Gutiérrez.
This exhibition will remain open to the public until February 15, 2023. The panels that make up the exhibition have been conceived to circulate, from this date and as a traveling exhibition, through educational centers, associations, etc.
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