The ethnographic site dedicated to the Huerta de Murcia will dispense with the animals with which it was inaugurated yesterday in the Plaza of Spain as part of the XXIX Festival of Folklore that is celebrated Friday and Saturday in San Javier, due to the high temperatures that Are planned for both days.
The City Council of San Javier together with the Federation of Murcian Peñas Huertanas, which has set up the huertano precinct, decided first thing in the morning to transfer animals, cows, pigs, sheep, hens, rabbits and a horse to their places of Origin to try to avoid the inclemencies of the strong heat of the Town Hall square, which according to forecasts will not give truce in the next few hours.
The ethnographic enclosure that has a typical furnished tent, an orchard, wagons, a wig to draw water, utensils, tools, and even an adorned family that cooks in their oven moruno will remain open to the public these days to show how lived in the Huerta murciana from the eighteenth century to the twentieth century.
The Mayor of San Javier, José Miguel Luengo, accompanied by the Councilor for Culture, David Martíne, along with representatives of the Choral and Danzas Mar Menor group of San Javier, who collaborates with the organization of the Festival together with the Department of Culture, And the Federation of Murcia of Peñas Huertanas, inaugurated last night the prelude as a prelude to the Festival that starts Friday with the first gala.
The surroundings of the Festival, next to the ethnographic site, an exhibition of ceramics of the family of Totana "El Poveo", which was inaugurated last night and that can be visited in the hall of the Town Hall until 30 June, in addition to a tent Huertana where you can eat or dine from the Peña "El Perejil", Murcia, and a bar of the local hospitality association Hostemar with tapas and drink for two euros.
The Festival whose two galas will lead the journalist Encarna Talavera begins tonight at 10pm with the first gala in the group of Choruses and Danzas Mar Menor, San Javier next to those of "La Zaranda", Murcia and "Monte Arabí "Of Yecla.
Tomorrow Saturday, the gala will begin with the performance of the San Javier theater group, which will represent the sainete "Everything for watching a bullfighter", followed by "a great surprise", and the performance of the local group, together with a folkloric formation of Huéscar, Granada, and another international from Slovakia.
On Sunday, June 25 at 12:00 the Festival moves to the esplanade Barnuevo, Santiago de la Ribera with an exhibition of the Slovak group and the local group.
The ethnographic enclosure and the huertanas barracks will be open from 12h to 16h approximately and from 18h30.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier