Portal de Murcia

www.portaldemurcia.com

• Home
• Business
• Hotels
• Restaurants
• News
• Advertisement

More than 500 people will accompany their Majesties the Kings in the morning parade through the streets of Murcia.

A Melchor, Gaspar and Baltasar will follow 14 parades and 15 floats, and a pageantry designed exclusively for the event this year.

Will be a total of 45 elements that make up this Christmas train that bathe the streets of Murcia of illusion and fantasy.

Only percussion troupe, "Reyes in Murcia" will be composed of about 70 people from Valencia, Alicante and Murcia.

The rest of the animation will be in Barcelona, Madrid and Murcia, with the exception of three groups of Italian origin.

This parade is the largest number of extras in the last 20 years.

Chariots of the Kings, the Star and Cinderella shared around a thousand kilos of sweets and 12,000 pieces of chocolate coins.

Melchor, Gaspar and Baltasar their actions begin tomorrow at 9:30 am, with visits to various charitable institutions, the prison of Sangonera the Green and the Hospital Virgen de La Arrixaca.

At 12:00 pm, Their Majesties will leave in three camels from the Plaza del Cardenal Belluga to La Glorieta.

There, will hold their traditional greeting from the balcony of City Hall.

After all children receive in the Plenary Hall where they will hear the petitions of the children.

The representatives of the three Kings in Murcia, Manuel Fernández Delgado, director of the Museo Ramón Gaya, Antonio Garcia, president of the Regional Federation of Tennis, and Juan Mouliaá, director of the Welfare of the CAM, will also visit the prison of Sangonera the Green and the Hospital Virgen de La Arrixaca so that no child is left without asking for their gifts to their Majesties.

The Queen of the 2009 Child Huerta, Carmen Perez, will be the Star of Christmas, and will accompany Melchor, Gaspar and Baltasar during the tour.

At 18:30 hours the parade will leave the Church of the Carmen and ends in Gutierrez Mellado with the visit of Bethlehem City in the Episcopal Palace.

Of the 7,000 numbered seats that were on sale between Gran Via and Constitution are only 2,000 pounds.

The times to acquire are from 10:00 to 13:30 today and tomorrow throughout the day.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia