The Carnival of Santiago de la Ribera returns to the summer for the sixth consecutive year, while winning public and comparsas on Saturday 6 August when tour the promenade from the old hospital Los Arcos to Sandoval Avenue where it will run the parade before finish on the esplanade Barnuevo.
Councilman Celebration, Pedro Lopez, the chairman of the committee troupes, José Carrio and the headman mayor of Santiago de la Ribera, Julia Gallut presented this morning the Summer Carnival, in the same square where the arrival of the parade, and as a novelty, a failure, the work of Salvador Navarro "Cuco", which plays a seahorse, a symbol of local carnival it will burn.
A massive costume party will end the night.
José Carrio explained that in this edition, with the Carnival tries to make the temporary forced to suspend the parade winter, will feature thirty groups of which more than half are foreign, coming from the Region of Murcia and in the province of Alicante, with local troupes.
Exceptionally, he said Carrio, troupes contest could not be performed in winter to reward the best groups of visitors carnival will be held.
Pedro López, José Carrio and Julia Gallut agreed to invite residents and visitors to enjoy the Carnival in Santiago de la Ribera who was one of the pioneers in creating the parade of summer on the shores of the Sea, to encourage and promote among visitors and tourists a holiday celebrated in all its splendor in February, and is about to get the declaration of Regional Tourist Interest, said the mayor of celebration.
A festive parade, which will start from the statue of "The Pilgrim", on the esplanade Barnuevo at 13h on Saturday August 6, begin to acclimate the town and remind residents and visitors of the great carnival quote of the night.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier