The Pilgrimage of San Blas, declared of Regional Tourist Interest, opens next Friday February 3 a festive weekend around the pinnacle and the hermitage of San Blas whose program presented today the Councilor of Celebrations, Pedro López accompanied by the mayor Peduna of Santiago de la Ribera, Julia Gallut and part of the party commission.
On February 3, a holiday in the municipality of San Javier, will start with a musical target that will remind the neighbors of the departure of the pilgrimage at 10:00 am from the church of Santiago Apóstol to the hermitage, where it is expected to arrive past At 11:00 a.m.
The Queen of the Orchard and two of her Ladies will do the pilgrimage announced Pedro Lopez that emphasized the twinning of San Blas with the regional Huertana tradition.
At the arrival of the Romería will be celebrated a huertana mass sung by the Rondalla and Choir Santiago Apostle, to the end of which will be delivered, for the first time to a young rosemary, Francisco Javier Sanz Torres, of the plate like Rosemary of the Year.
A giant paella will serve as food for visitors to continue a day in which thousands of people are installed early in the pinewood, and in which there will not be lacking the typical stalls of "Sanblases" and "caramel cigars of San Blas ", Nor the fairground attractions.
One of the funniest moments will come with the III World Championship of Launching of Candy of San Blas, with the mouth, that will be celebrated to the 16h., In which the Councilor of Celebrations, Pedro Lopez will try to revalidate the title that got the Last year in the masculine modality, as it announced today in the place of San Blas where it announced the program.
The smaller ones will also have their space with children's games in the area of ​​rocks.
The weekend will continue with activities in the pinewood of San Blas where on Saturday 4 the festival "BlasRock" is celebrated with the performance of four local groups: "Malaverguenza", "Kavando a Pala", "Muerte Kapilar" and "Boulevard" , Which will start playing at 1 pm.
Sunday 5 February is celebrated the day of the crumbs, with the cooking of a "giant migas" and a meeting of troveros and cuadrillas of the orchard of Murcia, in the enclosure of rocks, with which San Blas is a little sister More with the huertan festival of spring Murcian, said the councilman Pedro López.
López highlighted the family character and coexistence among friends maintained by the Pilgrimage of San Blas despite having become a multitudinal event, which this year has attracted the English community of La Manga from where will arrive a bus of English people willing to meet and enjoy This party, announced the mayor.
Julia Gallut, agreed with the spokeswoman of the commission, Mari Carmen Teruel, to invite the population not to miss the pilgrimage and to go with the typical Murcia dress, as was established at the origin of the pilgrimage in the 1980s, when A feast was re-launched that dates back to the sixteenth century after the arrival of the martyr, patron of throat diseases, with the Trinitarian monks who settled in the area.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier