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Just the Mass and the procession of Santa Beatriz in Teruel Alfambra people, "the memo reads my diary on July 3, when I got the call from the Mayor of Murcia and asked me to be the harbinger of the fair September.
I'll tell you briefly what went through my head in seconds: first surprise, "a preacher of the show?, At once a pleasant surprise to greet Don Miguel Angel, an honor, especially when you're a hundred miles from Murcia; Thirdly, why me?, then why do I say? ...
Liza was debating with myself healthy, almost amazed, when I said "this was done as Don Javier Azagra ..." and immediately my internal resistance faded, the castle was already trying to build defenses ran out ... and continued: "You are Murcia and, in addition to your responsibilities, Murcia ambassador outside the region ... come on it is a nice experience, I said ..." I think I closed the deal quickly, perhaps with more precipitation in the account, if I wanted to survive, because a brass band Alfambra parties, with the goodwill of greeting, gratitude, gratitude, and that shortly before had praised their good work, placed next to my ear all the tools they decorated and I could not find the right button off.
It is clear that human beings are not perfect, just finished the call, I was happy and immediately told them to expect me with a cold beer in hand and bark cover, "forgive," without hiding the emotion is that I called the Mayor of Murcia and you know ... sure, sure, they said, no more .... "
At this very moment boasted about my condition directly Murcia and gave start to this proclamation, because between the military did in San Javier, the other with distant relatives here, and yet another that he really liked on a tour of Murcia Inserso ..., topics which gave rise to "focus the bull" and rave about this city as Bonica and miracles that makes a huertano with a jug of water, because it takes ... and that heat from here, as there are cool things on TV, exaggerating the uncle of time. "
Well, well, I'm going around the bush, I find it difficult to get into the issue and that I am, as they say, "Partridge dizzy, is that in this" throw line to the bilocha "made me a specialist life ... but I am considering using a literary genre that will get me out of this "Baldomero".
The universally known, like no other method as used Windows.
Everyone knows the many possibilities offered by the fair to everybody, and older children, a symphony of cultural and festive activities, with an offer of religion, which gives meaning to these first days of September Murcia and moving hundreds of thousands after the image of the Virgen de la Fuensanta Morenica.
So I'll open different windows, one from within and the other from the outside, a very large and others small to watch the spectacle of the festival in Murcia.
BARRACA WINDOW (using the Windows, the American branch, would be: the "icon of the cabin, but I dispense some formalities) is the first window, I squeak these woods!, The poor are already many years, but I would like you to hover.
Here lives a huertano, which he describes a beautiful picture, familiar to many.
This is the choice of clothes for the party ... well, so to speak, about ... many years! ... To choose the clothes are not warming up ... you had the "christening gown" which was the same to go Mass on Sunday to go to the doctor and if not for anything else.
For daily had the most "internet job" because it is full of patches and "Zurich" and also the complementary odd seven.
Yes, men, ataos the "shorts" with a Cordet ... no problems whatsoever.
But the record straight, in "The Summer of quince" is the Queen of the Garden, is "the Juensantica" to the huerta is a holiday and deserves all the trappings.
You can see that our character lives in a shack.
The interior design with little, yes, very practical things on the wall, with three pins, a piece of mirror, and smoothed it right out of line.
Do not keep your eye on the calendar date of the wall Think of it ... The huertano face tells us everything is happy ... he explains the time:
"M'he put my new clothes
der ass out of the ark
rosé with my Vest
and my esfaja to be scarlet,
and my breeches fence
Branco as NACA
my nightgown with studs,
that is not carried in toa Spain,
bordaos on the chest with
as juera day and Easter
my carcetas of repiscos
and my blanket Espinardo,
and my ilk, which is pin
of tuiquia this endumentaria.
And if goléis to quinces
Prefumo that esparrama,
years is that coughing gets
ocena half my Juensanta
pa to be Prefumo
the clothes inside the ark;
and now with this olorcica,
juere walk, or walk go
Murcia is blessed Güell
already Guert of dreaming "(Nicholas Rex Plans, Entre Cieca and Kannada. Murcia 1962, 133).
When you open this window I make a tribute to all men and women of this beautiful land, the "little piece of heaven that God cast for these parts."
To all those born here, including those already left us and enjoyed the culture and traditions, and also to those who have come from other places throughout Murcia Spanish and are making, not forgetting those who regularly visit us ... Murcia is a city open, arms stretched out, great and generous heart, who knows how to celebrate without giving everything, without sharing the bread and joy ... Murcia is not strange, have siblings, friends, and when someone turns knocks on the door ... The heart of the shield is not that of Alfonso X the Wise, but even better is that it offers directly Murcia.
THE WINDOW OF DREAMS.
In this window you leverage all the children in Murcia for many years, she like birds were attending the fair loose ...! Many illusions!
Many dreams of a thousand colors were being created at the promises of the parents!
How many, "Dad, I've really done well?" I was whispered in his ear!
It was serious, spend more time at the fairgrounds, another turn to the horses or cotton candy Palitroques or, well, apple blush stick Pitch in ... in some cases, "FERIARTE" a toy .
Remember the poem by Vicente Medina?: "From what the world tóico / pa those with quarts !.../ I have seen the jüetes / bonico and cheap ..." (Vicente Medina, Air Murcianos. Murcia 1991.266) .
A natural calendar, no one knew who was driving, was pointing out, with rigor, in the case of children, time balls, tubes, plates, heels, the hammer, play donkey hide and seek to catch and hide ... and in the case of girls was the rope, hoops, the coroneja, trading cards ... but the mysterious power of the "marker time" was frustrated after the summer, because kids and adults were very clear that these days Fair play and dreamed of "down" to Murcia, in the late afternoon, just before the lights.
I loved the show when I was on the Malecon, had his former, with its chaotic arrangement of spaces, people everywhere, families with small fry, "acho, come p'acá! They shouted, as you re- go give you a pinch, that I pull the piece ...! ".
De Chinarro better not to talk, was what he enjoyed most, but rather "rebuked them, that's what the boys were in charge of the booths.
What bonico was all!, How many lights everywhere!
That was a particular universe architecture.
On the one hand the attractions, on the other those who sold licorcicos nougat, beyond the toy raffles and booths, also deserved a place apart from the inns, the materials were well embedded in the middle, reeds, palm leaves, achievable, planks and sticks ... a cable with several "pears" on and confetti of colors, making a secluded corner, which rugiaos and clean the jets appeared to gold and people, many people ...
"What bust rueas view,
facades, lighting
espejiquios drinking water
and a horchata vasiquios;
Mercallo the cascaruja
curd and hazelnut
in positions of al-lao er River
because better espachaban,
and visit the booths,
the pochinelas, boats ... "(Nicholas Rex, oc, 137)
Despite the nostalgic feeling of the passage of the Fair to FICA earned him a lot, it was another thing, more space, but was "far away" ... At the Chinarro attractions accompanied them, but was home and not assaulted you both, and they got the Chinese shoes, more space, more air ... what charm! ...
In a few years the site has grown a lot, but has kept the dreams in young hearts Murcia.
Unfortunately in recent years have not returned to the Fair, to that which kept me mouth and eyes open when everything around you was full of surprises, where you felt happy, very happy with your parents, siblings, friends, with nothing in return ... it was a family party!
I would, if I may, to invite all parents, all families of Murcia, to open your window to your children's dreams and I asoméis with them their fantasies, that happiness is free and, as in my case, shorts, save a copy and the satisfaction of having been a rider most of the eternal return, things of "horses."
COSO WINDOW
Del Coso Condomina of course.
I still remember your student years in the Minor Seminary of San Jose, where he was an obligatory the Plaza de los Toros, an urban landscape that is very familiar to me.
If I say I met lemon orchards full of those around, do not call me old man is rushed to build houses.
To the seminarians enough we go upstairs where the toilets were common markers for simultaneous, not "electronic" rather digital, that was the way the field assistant lifted the posters on the Football Field Condomina.
That was a breakthrough in Internet technology now, because you knew the results instantly, something that was happening in the distance, but without images.
The days of the bulls was a sight to see so many people, the most lagged bought meat pies and snacks in the nearby shops, beverages on the plaza and cauldrons ... The animation was so great that it was contagious.
It was nice to observe the groups were approaching the square, just rebuked them in the ring.
I have not been forgotten, so curious that in each group who approached the square, highlighted the figure of one of them, which was the most knowledgeable in these arts and it showed as a leading voice, gestures right and left, open shirt sporting the tan from the Mar Menor and leaving behind the trail of smoke from the first Faria in the afternoon.
My friend Patrick was a specialist in the field of bulls, Cosio was at home and it gave him much authority over their peers who did not understand iota, however, perceived the intricacies it contained.
I, as I arrived in the art of Chicuelo, Manolete, Sanchez Megías, Belmonte, Antoñete, the Litres ... has been to have the privilege of going in the same vehicle Pepin Jiménez, Lorca a great fighter, which invited me Calasparra Square, and witness all the rituals of preparing the right-handed, the teacher ... until they started paseíllo.
I assure you that this was something serious and electrifying and left shoulder.
But back to the wisdom of my friend taurine, imagine what would have been academic quality, please excuse the impropriety, because it would mean, what a play?, No, better, say ... a task that made the bullfighter, that he alone in stood square, handkerchief in hand and encouraged us to two or three unhappy that accompanied them to do the same, so we got up sheepishly, while the rest of the fans were on something else, however, our instructor bullfighting no failed to push the issue and we wanted to understand the importance of what had happened there.
Let there be no doubt that he would be in the fine print of the Encyclopedia notes taurine or footer, but it would be.
You can imagine that the only reaction found in their patients coterie was nodded without saying a word.
Whether you understand or not fighting, it is noteworthy that creates the environment, the movement of people who drag coming from all corners of the region and other regions nearby.
They say the signs are usually very good and that the success of the evening is assured ... This year, that lack plaza.
Well, mind and the bull!
THE WINDOW OF CULTURES
Color, rhythm, beauty, heart, smile and dance ... flavors from faraway lands with wishes for peace, flags flying ... is the window of the International Folklore Festival of the Mediterranean or in the Mediterranean, with over 40 years of business and success to success.
It may seem normal this festival, because one is accustomed to see them through the streets and squares of the city and the people of the region, but make a trip to the past and see the reception of this event, which meant opening to other worlds, the expectations raised behind those costumes and how, in many cases, I had become interested in those countries ... The boys and girls who were the groups were aware of their status as ambassadors and divided sympathies, laughter and joy everywhere.
Everyone knows that the founders of this event were D.
Alfonso Izarra, governor of the province; D.
Manuel Fernandez-Delgado, the first director of the festival, D.
Manuel Muñoz, professor at the University, and Monsieur Lassagbe, cultural attaché of France and famous folk.
They were the ones who lit the spark, but the city of Murcia was the one who welcomed them, as their own, this initiative and, within the vagaries of fate, it has enhanced and continues to pave its streets and squares, to the delight of all.
I think he has had several locations, but remember, at the dawn of time, its location next to the sports hall, behind the Tennis Club, how beautiful the nights of those years!
In a society that continues to look for signs, it is important to take care, because it speaks without words, concord, harmony, fraternity, there are no borders, we are able to live offering the best of each and all builders Peace ... Here I've gone a little church vein, but it does not hurt that St. Paul reminded us to preach in season and out of season, occasion or without it (cf. 2 Tim. 4.2) and added: "With patience and sound doctrine. "
Well, I hope you do not miss, which is convinced that a new and more humane world is possible, so that with God's help, encouragement to empower all signs that promote the dignity of the person and their important role in society, be this way or a thousand other ways.
WINDOW GARDENS
I do not know how to open this window I have come to mind the popular crisper, prior to refrigerators.
So we called the Path of grain to that thing that made Palic and chicken wire, like a cage, was used to make foods, cheeses and sausages, to be preserved "fresh", but for fresh melons water, which enjoyed a special status in the summer, they alone enjoyed the privilege of changing the water fresh from the well, in the shade of the fig tree, something serious.
Everything is explained, and that in speaking of the gardens there is no other thought but that of their culinary specialties, the taste of friendship, meet friends, talk about how they spent the summer ... all the outdoor summer nights ...
The gardens deserve a separate chapter called, because they keep inside the best aromas and flavors of traditional cuisine, worthy of all the medals.
In each garden, a pot, as calculated ... so many gardens, so many specialties ... but what I will tell you!
The drought issue had been resolved in Murcia, at least in these parties, so much so that we would not need to put in front of City Hall's poster: "Water for All", enough to share the menu when the orchards eating and wait a bit ... because "the most Pintao" it would make your mouth water ... I'll be good and I will not mention it, not to put them in a compromise.
I refer only to the evidence, come and see the success of this happy invention, participate, ladies and gentlemen!
WINDOWS MORE
For windows will not be sure that Bill Gates, who has only one Window, amended seven times, we have a great envy, because we still have more to fill a skyscraper ... let's see, let's review:
The history window, known as the "Moors and Christians", is the recreation of the founding of Murcia, update the birth and first steps of the seven-times capped and no conquered, one of participation and magic show, lights and colors filling the Great Way of expectation by the dances and flashes of original and colorful costumes, this year illuminated by streetlights in the hamlets, better and more noticeable that we are all one and that nobody is missing in the show.
The windows and crafts markets for all kinds of audiences, for all tastes and needs, no one is indifferent, the reach of all budgets, opportunities for gifts ... Greetings to all the anonymous artists who show behind the makeshift counter the most diverse creations and appreciation of your great work.
Window Open it to music!, To hit with young and old, songs of yesterday and today that make you dream ... forceful rhythms and play of light able to move thousands of young people to disinhibition, get carried away by the whims of waves that make the timing of notes, put the body at the mercy of their own music inspired ... so, you get caught, you get hooked, you have ...
Not closed the window of Art, which opened this season with many art exhibitions in various galleries in the city center, in many cases painters or sculptors Murcia, which took us from reality to reality ... a greeting played to those of yesterday and today.
I still have hundreds of brochures for exhibitions of art galleries somewhere in my old house.
At this point you should have the expertise to create silence, change the setting, away temporarily leave this podium and retire into the building we are describing ... I wish I knew how to create the right atmosphere!
Then, climb the steps of his secretive and dark old stairs to reach the height of the main balcony, open their shutters as necessary, without showing even the inside, just space to allow my body would slowly, placed at the end of the balustrade and thence announce the great news: the Virgin is with us the Fuensanta!
Mother of God and our Mother!
Morena!
Rejoice and sing in chorus all the Virgen de la Vega!
Which leads to Jesus our prayers, because they go through their dressing room!
Suddenly, as in a solemn ceremony, open wide the doors to the balcony, all eyes turn to him and going out despacico Mary's throne, until her face so bright that dazzles in the sun, the moon has the footstool of his feet and rain from the sky, the petals of red roses, carnations, stock and freshly picked jasmine with fresh dew.
Viva la Virgen de la Fuensanta!, Cry some, many "live" answer all ... but, how pretty!, They tell themselves the inflamed hearts of Murcia ...
THE BALCONY OF THE VIRGIN FUENSANTA
Now you can start the party, to open the precincts of the show, to sing and dance all, which is already home to us the image of the Virgin of Fuensanta ...!
At the door of the Church of Carmen we have waited thousands of people with difficulties to walk, accompanied him to the Cathedral, what experience, my God, a short run, for Floridablanca, Camachos Square, the old bridge enfilar to St. Patrick Street, Glorieta, Arenal, Cardinal Square and Cathedral ... Belluga short distance, but long, long in the faith of Murcia, in the thousands of prayers that rise in the path, in the joy and the joy of walking with Mary ...
Source: José Manuel Lorca Planes. Foto: archivo Murcia.com
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