The Mayor, Miguel Ángel Cámara, met today with his appointment as Ambassador Moro holiday Shield-The Invasion of Cieza, held the last weekend of April.
The choice lies between ciezanos who succeed out of town or people who stand out for promoting the enlargement of the holidays.
Aurelio Guirao Auditorium has hosted this afternoon by the instrument of appointment of the charges the next festive Moors and Christians, promoted by the Brotherhood of St. Bartholomew.
On this occasion, along with House, the protagonists of the celebrations will be Ginés Martínez, Director General of the Regional Employment Service and Training, which will play the Ambassador Christian, in addition to the festive ciezanos Comendador Antonio Marin-Herrera, and Christopher King.
In addition to the appointment of festive charges, the ceremony held this week has served to publicly present the new anthem composed for the feast by Francisco García Alcázar, ciezano and current director of the band of Caravaca de la Cruz.
The piece has been played by the Band of the Municipal School of Music in Cieza.
During the ceremony also was handed the prizes first photo contest and presented the poster for the holidays 2009, by Francisco Rodriguez.
Las Fiestas del Escudo whose main protagonists at eight Kabila and five mesnadas.
For three days, Cieza back up to 1477, when the city underwent in the early hours of Easter Sunday, looting by troops Nazari, an event remembered in the arms of the town, where you can read "By passing the bridge we death resulted. "
Contrary to what happens in other celebrations, this time expires Moors.
Three days of intense party
The celebrations will take place on 24, 25 and 26 April.
On Friday, the Mayor of Cieza, Antonio Tamayo, hand over powers to the Commander of the Villa, while Ambassador Miguel Angel Moro-House, "I shall harangue the Moors.
On the first day also will open the camps and the medieval market.
On Saturday it is time for the parade which, starting from the Plaza de San Bartolomé, and on arrival at the corner of Convent, celebrate the "troanera."
In the afternoon it's time the main event of the celebrations, the Invasion, which portrays the Arab incursion in 1477.
The offering to the patron and a grand parade of festivals to put the climax to three days of intense celebrations.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia