Last holidays in Alicante. The bonfires of 1975 They played at an end with a calendar full of acts for every corner of the city. Alfonso el Sabio had raised the award of the Special category bonfire, followed by the market; It was not- as they already know- mitigating. All would go through the cremà's drink that concentrated the epilogue of intense parties that had set up to all the neighborhoods of the capital.
June 24 years ago He began in Alicante with a mass in the church of Benalúa at 11 in the morning, the Mora de San Blas embassy would then follow him, when the traditional neighborhood celebrated its big week while the fires. In 1979 they would now change the calendar we know today. On that last day of the party would happen to him a children's soccer championship, the bullfight and the “verbenas of the different districts” (sic). At midnight, as the canons send, the palm tree shot at Benacantil and, after it, the beautifying cremà that fired the most intense days of the city until the following year. Immediately afterwards it would be the time of some fires that would open the first day the Coruña Gabriel Rocha, who shot a castle of 80,000 pesetas in which he burned a ton of gunpowder.
Beyond gunpowder, Alicante had the «Operation sidewalks»for which he allocated 16 million pesetas. Half, for neighborhoods; The rest, for the center. The neighborhood of Ciudad de Asís, whose bonfire had been third especially, was congratulations because he finally glimpsed his long -awaited square. Another of the works that the City Council had underway was that of access to Renfe, which assured that it was “ready.” In addition, the construction of a parking lot at the foot of Benacantil was negotiated and for this a call for business exploitation for five years was finalized. The parking schedule, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. to 15 pesetas.
Away from the worldly pleasures, the citizen's rhythm did not stop and those days were prices for the sale of pork in Alicante: the maximum for chops, 156 pesetas per kilo; For the lean, 148; And for the ribs, 70. It was also that week of the reception to the authorities of Carloforte, the Italian municipality that had twinned with Tabarca for its common origin.
Despite the proximity of the month of June, the sport had not yet said its last word and the Calypis The handball cup was awarded, thus closing a historical double, starting point of a golden and unrepeatable era. The Alicante team imposed 16-13 to the Granollers and a day later it became public that the Machada coach, the military López Cuadras, left the entity. His substitute, Miguel Roca, of the aforementioned Catalan team, with whom the Calpisa would follow a glittering path. In tennis, Juan Gisbert was proclaimed champion of the I Palmeral Trophy by beating Santana before a very numerous audience.
From the north of the province the lament of the Plans Farmers, Benimarfull and Almudainawhose cherry had been affected by a water storm. The Alicante mountain was the second national producer, although marketing was still the most serious problem for its final expansion. In other municipalities in the interior, an ambitious plan for a large residential zone had then been projected. It was intended that Parcent and Benigembla house a complex with a 36 -hole golf course, a four million square meters hunting and a track for planes. Five billion pesetas were initially allocated.
With the two months of summer in the chapel, the Gallo Rojo Room announced a sign with some names that would envy any festival today. Hold on, the best of the best. In July and August 1975 they would pass through the room of El Campello Salomé, Serrat, Raphael, Ana Belén, Víctor Manuel, Camilo Sesto, Sara Montiel, Mari Trini, Patxi andión, Al Bano, Luis Aguilé … There was no lack of any of the stars of the moment.
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