The Zafra International Livestock Fair is held from 29 from September to 4 October.
The Zafra Fair is a must-see event for more than one and a half million people every year., around the festival of San Miguel. It is one of the oldest and most important fairs at a national and international level., celebrated since the 15th century.
THE FAME OF AN INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK FAIR
The Zafra fair has a renowned reputation throughout Europe, in such a way that from the Castilian region to the Andalusian region, It is considered the one with the greatest confluence of ranchers and is the one that imposes prices and criteria for a large part of the nation and that, therefore, For them it is an obligation and necessity to be present during the days of this Zafren fair.. All the cattle that go to these markets can be purchased in lively auctions that have reached high prices..
The concentration of select cattle has been joined by a series of events, lectures by subject specialists, exhibition of agricultural and food machinery, as well as all products that are directly related to the countryside and livestock sector..
To host these activities, The Zafra Fair has the best fair facilities of this type in all of Europe, which were expanded on the occasion of the celebration in the year 1992 of the Quincentennial Fair, that summoned the highest authorities of the nation to its premises, chaired by the King of Spain and the ministers of the agricultural and livestock sector from several countries.
AN ORIGINAL AND MULTITUDINARY FAIR
The Zafra fair manages to attract to its premises in the first days of October a multitude of visitors from all the Extremaduran businesses and neighboring communities., in an attendance that reaches a million and a half people and who feel the need to be present every year at this complex and original exhibition. All kinds of artisans also meet there., providing this commercial event with a typical image, unusual and already lost in other places, with the display in the streets and installations of products of all kinds and uses.
In the playful order, that always accompanies all commercial activities, The Zafra Fair brings together in its extensive facilities a varied program of attractions, meetings, horse competitions, sports performances and demonstrations, that prelude and accompany the days of full and marked agricultural and livestock aspects.
- Traditional Rodeo and Exhibition-Sale of Select Livestock
- Morphological Competitions
- Hunting Exhibition
- National Dog Show
- Competition-Exhibition of purebred Spanish horses
- National Equestrian Competition
AGRO-INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITIONS
The Agro-Industrial area of the International Livestock Fair includes the following commercial sectors.
- Livestock Area
- Agro-Livestock Machinery and Equipment Area
- Agro-Food Products Area
- Animal Health and Livestock Products Area
- Institutions Area
- Festive Area
FACILITIES
The Zafra Fairgrounds have an area of 25 hectares and includes different areas: Institutions, Cattle raising, Agro-Industrial Exhibitions, Festive and Traditional Rodeo.
The Agro-Industrial Exhibition area has outdoor space and a covered area.
The outdoor space for installing stands has an area of 55.000 square meters and is equipped with the appropriate supplies.
The covered areas for stands of the different agro-industrial commercial branches, They have a surface of 33.000 square meters.
