The Carnival of Santiago de la Ribera will begin next Saturday, March 2 with its main presentation card, the Queen's Choice gala, which this year promises to overcome the spectacular character that characterizes it with the extension of the measures allowed in the fantasies of the Muses. candidates that can reach 4 meters in height and diameter.
The councilman of Celebrations, Pedro Lopez and Susana Sanchez, component of the commission of comparsas, presented this morning the program of Carnival of Santiago de la Ribera that this year adds three new comparsas and one more candidate to Reina, title by which the Muses of "Those that were missing", "Olé-Olá", "Aire", "Makulele", "Brasilia" and "Río" in the gala that will begin at 22: 30h.
in the carp of carnival installed in the gardens "Prince of Asturias", with the riverside José Manuel Sánchez, known as "El Gasofa", of the town crier.
On Sunday, March 3, the canine carnival will be celebrated, preceded by an exhibition at the Barnuevo esplanade that will be used to collect donations that will be distributed among several protectors, explained Susana Sánchez.
The children's muses appeal to luck to get the title of Queen in the children's gala to be held in the tent of Carnival at 7pm.
On Tuesday 5 and Wednesday 6 there will be celebrations of children's carnival and associations, respectively.
The humor will come with the contest of chirigotas that will take place on Thursday, March 7 at 10 pm with the participation of the main and most awarded chirigotas of the Region.
The Carnival of Santiago de la Ribera also stops in the choreography with a contest of invited choreographic groups that will open Rubén Zapata, ribereño and flaming winner of the XI National Contest of Drag Queen of Torrevieja, Alicante, as "Drag Odín" with the choreography " The sting of the queen ", Friday, March 8.
The Pasabares on Saturday, which will be released at 12 noon will tour the bars of the center of the town with a charanga "to take the carnival to the street and invite the participation of the people," said Susana Sánchez.
In the evening the traditional popular costume party will be celebrated with awards for the best, and eighties atmosphere.
Carnival week will be dismissed with the parade on Sunday March 10, which will leave at 16h from Barnuevo esplanade to travel the avenue of the same name and the Mar Menor avenue with the participation of 40 comparsas and about 2000 people in a parade that it will have a wide range of media and a service of chairs for the public, and as usual it will conclude in the Carnival tent with a party in which the prizes will be awarded to the best visiting troupes.
Celebrations Councilman Pedro Lopez claimed the Carnival of Santiago de la Ribera as "one of the most important in the region" and insisted on claiming the declaration of Regional Tourist Interest for Carnival "that continues to gain supporters as evidenced by the incorporation of three new comparsas and a candidate more than last year to Reina ", in a Gala that" by which we are known outside our borders ".
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier