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With the permission of His Excellency.
Mr. Mayor-President of the Hon.
City Council of Murcia, in which we Plenary Hall.
Ilmos.
Messrs Councillors, Excmas.
e Ilmas.
Authorities, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, all friends present here.
Let my first words, after the salutation to the Chair of the event using the old and sacramental formula with which we carry out the noble and beautiful profession of lawyer we went to the courts of justice, harboring in his excitement within the immense gratitude and appreciation to His Excellency.
Murcia City Council in the person of its mayor, Hon.
Mr. Don Miguel Angel Botia Chamber for the honor given by the Bar Association of Murcia and the Dean with the most honorable task of delivering the opening speech of the Fair of this ancient city of Madina Mursiya, capital around the year 800 of the Tudmir Cora.
Honor and pride that I wish to share this event with all the lawyers of the Bar Association of Lawyers of Murcia and especially with my fellow board members of government and also with those who work there everyday.
Honor and also satisfaction that I engage all Deans that throughout its long history has chaired our Corporation.
From the first Moñino Don Victor Vergara and onwards, to deans of Honor by the present Governing accompany Dean preacher in this event.
An institution that met July 2 170 years long and storied history.
It was in 1838, under the regency of Dona Maria Cristina de Borbón, wife of King Ferdinand VII, when our school started out as public corporation serving all Murcia.
It was HE Mayor of Murcia.
Mr. Don Ramon Thomas Jumilla.
It is, therefore, in the s.
Murcia nineteenth advocacy is organized collegially.
However, they were six centuries before, in the s.
XIII, when you start your financial planning.
It was also the century when the Feria de Murcia, the event brings us together here, began its annual celebrations.
Two contemporary events whose initiative belongs to the same person.
Alfonso X, who claimed rightly nicknamed the Wise, King has been a significant event in the history of Spain in Murcia.
His biographers and scholars agree on the fascination with the character, in a threefold.
The first, the contradiction of his own personal journey, which became the political victory, cultural and legal to bitterness and disappointment at the end of their days abandoned by all, deposed and stripped of his powers and functions, he, the wisest king of the Middle Ages, the King who was so clear the sources of its legitimacy.
The second facet of Alfonso X that stands out, in the words of historian Garcia Carcel, cultural production is impressive, the last lesson that contains this rule: the praise of knowledge.
In the legal sphere, the three legal codes: The Royal Charter, the speculator and the parties, among other works, are good examples.
The third strand concerns the modernity of its political and cultural project.
The Spanish law in general and Murcia in particular, should the monarch Wise initiative to clean up his exercise.
Until the end of s.
XII the profession of lawyer had held in a disorderly and uncontrolled, with so-called spokesmen, as well as by officials, clerics, monks and friars.
Just the huge legislative work carried out by King Alfonso and reflected in the three codes mentioned above, which replaced the short, simple books municipal led to a triggering event such as that from the time a number of people devoted to the license of law in its dual role as judge cases and reason for ignoring the law.
It should be recalled in this section or the Master James Jacome Ruiz, laws, tutor of the king being infant.
His "Flower of law" were taken, for the most part, to the parties.
The Sovereign was appointed judge and gave division in Murcia.
And so a privilege dated at Jerez on April 22, 1268, the monarch formally agreed to provide attorneys Murcia.
One of the consequences was that years later the Town Hall where we had the first lawyer in the person of Alvaro de Santestevan graduate, appointed by the Catholic Kings, who ordered "hereafter, and one nurse each year counsel for the cibdad for things that blow with Council which has 3000 maravedíes salary every year. "
Two years before the lawyers begin their practice officially recognized and ordained in our region, the 1266, King Alfonso Murcia granted another privilege: the Fair.
Historians place their initial location in the two areas converged Arrixaca, blackberry and Christians, and framed by the confluence of the pedestrian streets of old settled the various traders, artisans and manufacturers, and later renamed Santo Domingo.
The creation of the annual Fair, very important for the city of Murcia data, according to Alonso Navarro of May 4, 1272, authorizing census hundred stores with donation of a tahullas for expansion and service.
Ended and this debut in memory of Alfonso X the Wise, the monarch found in Murcia, in the words of that Alonso Navarro, his dream of paradise, where the vegetation was a hymn to life and hope.
Warlike people if they were claimed to feats of arms, or witty and spontaneous when the king called for imagination and effort.
Unreserved loyalty also valued by the king to their state feel the bitterness generated by real affairs of state and succession, he always knew how to understand and support Murcia, and unwavering support for a monarch who wanted both, and attended always successfully, to seek justice or protection for their trouble.
So granted Murcia, for the record in its original coat of arms, five royal crowns, in response to input from our region to the facts of real weapons that allowed notable achieve lasting victories and confirmation of the Kingdom of Murcia as part of the Brand de Castilla.
The preacher that you have the honor of addressing, addresses the Fair in its modern personal settings from a threefold vision, prism or perspective.
And I beg you to excuse you to know the audacity to choose this option and use the trading session as the official representative.
But is that the rich and varied activities Murcia Fair offers not able to maintain the vision of perspective, if not the passion of those who live in first person, committed to them.
A first view is necessarily that of a young man born in Cantoria, a small village in the Almanzora River Basin, a region inside the neighboring province of Almeria.
Its flag, the flag of Cantoria has been exposed in the archaeological museum exhibition devoted to "Regnum Murciae."
Flag in 1569 Lorca Thirds wrested from the Moors at that time revolted and besieged the towns of Oria and Cantoria and after winning the battle of Arboleas returned victorious with five flags, including that of my people Cantoria.
Well, this young man that parental decision and for the sake of the future university for him and his four brothers coming, moves to Murcia in 1973, the murcianísimo neighborhood of Trinidad, Calle Obispo Frutos and Andrew College Baquero whose first floor had their primary residence, provided by the center director of his father.
We hosted the Murcia as always, generous and caring, charitable and hospitable, as genuine representatives appears on the facade of the old corn exchange, store of grain or bread house, then and now Courthouse Exhibition Hall, I am referring, as I imagine all of Almudí Palace.
In its front has skillfully represented the hospitality of Murcia, the symbol adopted by the vegetable garden rocks.
The midwife gives her chest a strange child, while the other side waiting to nurse her own child, and others, to their feet, waiting to receive that benefit.
The Fair at the already distant 1973 was located on the Malecon and the area of Murcia expanding the preacher came.
For the young newcomer, the discovery of the city and its Fair was a matching activity and exciting.
Alongside the work of "exploration of the land" surrounding my new home, including the surrounding campus and law school to which I immediately incorporated, simultaneously playful enjoyment of the fair.
The first contact is made from the privileged vantage point of one of the large terraces of the College Andrés Baquero.
From the street looking Obispo Frutos, noted the continuing discourse of the crowd that cigar in hand, plus the inevitable bags containing a snack, went to the nearby arena of Condomina.
This is the blessed moment I still do not understand how after a more than generous meal in the great restaurants of our city, almost two hours, rest, before the fourth bull fighting, the delivery of new staff the stuffing with the unflagging relish.
From the terrace, since the preacher has no great Bullfighting draft of his brother Jesus who does not miss the unpacking of the bulls, heard later the sound manifestations of good or evil slaughter of the fighters, as well as heard, before I become a member of R.
Murcia from our sins, rockets proclaiming the goal that their forwards were marked on the adjacent football field.
Were some first experiences of the fair through the sounds that the wind brought to my ears, or ringing of the respectable olés taurómaca in turn bullfight.
That respectable public sometimes and others it seems not so much that, in 1850, directed one side then the Corregidor Don Alejo Molina and Vera, Viscount garden, brigadier of national armies, senator and mayor magistrate of the United of this capital.
(These are titles mayor).
Part of the camp read:
"I DO KNOW.
That in order for the death bullfight to be held in this city on day 8 of the current check in accordance with all rules of comfort, good method and order, established for these cases, I have been in sending him next.
Article I.
Should not be thrown to the square shells or bark green or dried fruit and some things that will get dirty, exposing the fighters time to inevitable misfortunes.
Section II Any of the audience to promote issues or disputes that may disrupt the peace that must prevail in such functions will be immediately ejected from the square, without prejudice to other provisions that should be taken depending on the seriousness of the misconduct and under to what we have laws.
[...]
8 º.
Will start to function at four o'clock in the afternoon, for which the authority shall promptly at the designated spot for the presidency.
And so that nobody can claim ignorance and shall be published this in public places and used this capital.
Murcia September 4, 1850 "
Direct contact with the Fair would occur with a visit to the fairground, which came with one of my brothers.
There were few days in this city and I had not had time to make great friends I've been lucky enough to score in 35 years.
Since our goal in Fair booths were shot with pellet guns, we would shoot to toothpicks or gum balls, ending in the inevitable car crash.
Marian devotion of my father led the other experience of the show was precisely the approach to the reason for this event, a figure that is dedicated to the celebration grounds: La Virgen de la Fuensanta.
First, with the obligatory visit to the Cathedral and behold majestic in its niche, to then join the procession that moved to the Lady from her dressing room of the cathedral building to his abode in the sanctuary of Mt.
It was certainly not the first pilgrimage to which he went.
In my childhood Almeria accompanied the Virgin of Monteagud in Uleila birthplace of my father and I experienced my first experiences as rosemary.
Know and experience the vastness and grandeur of the first temple Murcia, crowded with devout pilgrims enraptured contemplating the splendor of the moraine, framed by the impressive altarpiece chairs the altar and the Wise King's heart at his feet, is an unforgettable scene for a newcomer.
The subsequent pilgrimage meant for me by my father not only a religious activity manners, if not the possibility of continuing with the discovery of the city and its surroundings.
I met the oldest bridge in its niche Murcia chaired by another virgin, the Hazards, "over the bridge" so that no Murcia, believer or not it is, do not forget to say hello when transiting path of Barrio del Carmen or the opposite direction as the Gran Via That crown to tradition, when flooding occurred, was thrown into the river, either tied to a rope, to stop the momentum of the current.
Something that unfortunately did not get the days of San Calixto, first, and Santa Teresa later.
The descent to the Plaza de Camachos allowed me to find out which was built after the bridge over which my father and I had traveled with the rest of pilgrims accompany our Lady, in the middle of the eighteenth century Council agreement with the unrelenting growth population.
We also envisioned that the first destination of the square was used as a bullring and the old, located in the Plaza of the Augustinians, had become too small.
And so to leave the city, after greeting the Virgin of Carmen, by James the Greater was the Seven Slopes and finally the mountain of the Holy Source.
And on Tuesday to tradition, so that their genuine shelves, the Capuchin friars, could carry it once, after fasting and abstinence to their rule were forced from Wednesday to Saturday, Sunday and Monday recovering forces.
Thus ends the first sight of the herald of fair Murcia.
The second lens or prism, I am going to allow that is not specific.
When I finish my studies in law degree, I have two options: practice the profession of lawyer in Murcia and Almería back to my hometown.
The dilemma was not so.
Open my first law firm in Santa Ana Street, behind the Casa Ruiz Funes, next to Santo Domingo and ficus marry a born Murcia across the ficus, the end of the street Alejandro Seiquer, where the branches to the right towards the Merced and left to the Plaza de Santo Domingo, was almost simultaneous.
The tribute that this proclamation would like to pay a woman Murcia, a laugh that when "beauty shines throughout the garden Sultana" is the reason for this second experience exhibition expose the mouth of whom more than 26 years Share your joys and sorrows with whom you addressed this proclamation.
So making a film retrospective flashback, back in time from 1973 to the experiences trade shows in the 60's saw a girl with huge, expressive brown eyes, pigtails and headband and immaculate white dress, the granddaughter of Murcia and Cartagena.
Who covered the Virgin of the hazards because his grandfather had dentista query beneath it from its niche, passing the Old Bridge.
They are memories, the most important of his life, because they are that lead to his childhood.
His very closely linked to their grandparents Ambrosio Bermejo and Joan Knight, with great passing seasons, due in part to the ear of his brother Carlos, and in part to the happiness that caused him to be with them without being overthrown.
September-sixties, for this girl Murcia is, as I say, more and better memories bring to your memory, because it reproduces the smell and taste senses again, his childhood and harmonious light evenings.
September odor is the smell of La Alberca.
Is dense aroma of jasmine, Diamela, honeysuckle and pine.
It is also the essence of perfume Misuko wearing her grandmother in important moments, as he was receiving at the Virgen de la Fuensanta in the Cathedral, while descending the mountain.
The temple came through the door of the Plaza de la Cruz, in the arms of his grandfather who passed in front of San Cristobal and the child stated: "looks like you."
Came after the fairgrounds, to see Cristobita and ride the carousel with horses elegant, drained and bright colors, with music and magic mirror box.
Because for that child to all children in the world, magic is the fair with their jobs jínjoles, almonds, lupins and some candy for her were enormous for the long stick and red, his grandmother bought him and his Grandfather, do not forget, was a dentist, he warned: "girl, candy suck not bite, if not, do not bring more."
And it took her more, regardless of what he did, because for her the fair was the day of the fair.
The rest of the show were the bulls.
And their grandparents went to the bulls.
His grandfather impeccable, elegant grandmother with her shawl on her arm, blue with chinoiserie motifs and heads of pearl hand painted her granddaughter saved as a real treasure.
On Monday night before the pilgrimage was sleeping in my grandparents' house, at his home in Old Bridge, where Dr. Bermejo, as I have related, had dental consultation, again, directly under the niche of the Virgin of hazards, so it was known as "the bridge dentist."
The reason for this fire overnight was the other Lady, the patron saint, the Virgin of the bridge Fuensanta rising slowly, swaying, happy and good company.
He was returning home from the hill full of petitions and prayers, especially those of the expected rain, that's what the Virgin has dethroned the Arrixaca, and if it had granted, he would ensure Our Lady of the danger that would cause damage as it passes through the city.
Immediately return all to the pool, the Verdolay, Villa Juanita in honor of the grandmother, they had to follow the tradition of opening wide the doors of their homes to care for pilgrims returning from the mountain.
These are in order, the experiences of a girl who thinks that old times were better, but that they specifically do, because it brings to mind the image of her grandparents and fair.
This is ultimately also the grandparents Fair for all children in the world has a special flavor, just for your company.
That girl mother now, wait, if God gives him health and grandchildren do the same for them, and of course have the testimony of the day in which his grandfather proclaimed Murcia Fair, an honor granted by the Consistory and the Mayor.
The third and last vision I want to transmit to you in this my proclamation announcing the Fair Septembrina almost at the autumnal equinox, has to do with a visit to the site and other acts carried out by a family fair Murcia.
Marriage between the young and amurcianado Almeria, let the word, and the girl whose perceptions and experiences have passed fair, born three new Murcia.
Now we are in the Plaza Circular of the eighties, in the Round, in the Rotunda, as ye call it, in order Cibeles in Murcia where from time to time we celebrate the successes of our R. Murcia and we hope to go to end of this football season.
As I said, this time the crier calls you to the show of the family whose prism is obviously different.
From this perspective, observe and experience the show through the faces and eyes of your children.
We are at the beginning of the nineties and now the celebration has been incorporating new activities and celebrations.
It is the Fair also of the Moors and Christians, of orchards, the tunas, the festival of folklore and livestock as necessary for our people in the garden.
That's the route you do with your offspring.
First, by demands of the script and I want to affiliate, the family goes to the fairground, now installed in its current location: La Fica.
The entry is simply unforgettable as a parent when you contemplate the ecstatic faces, gaping of your children.
His eyes do not fit into their orbits.
Is the show of odors and flavors, we are experiencing the senses.
Source: PEDRO LUIS SAEZ LOPEZ
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