The official circuit of bonfires has become, one more year, the meeting site for all the cultures and parties, distant and neighborsthat keep ties with Alicante. He folkloric parade He filled again the sides of Alfonso the Sabio and La Rambla with thousands of people who came to see colors, dances, costumes and sounds other than those always.
Participaron Around half a hundred entities in which year after year it stands out as the more massive parade of those that are held in the big days of bonfires. They were from the simplest, like a colla with a dozen members, to the most Impressive and nourishedlike those of different comparsas of the Carnival of Torrevieja or foreign communities associationssuch as the Venezuelan, Paraguayan or Ecuadorian.
As is often the case in an event that, like this, requires a millimeter organization difficult to achieve when participants are composed of five tens of different associations, the act started with several minutes of delay, and also lasted somewhat more than expected.
Nothing that the public did not know how to forgive. The sidewalks of Alfonso the Wise They were overflowing with people among those who settled to see the troupes and those who mobilized in the hallway left. There were also many who paid the seven euros that were charged for the chairs of the official circuit, although they never cease to reveal their disagreement with the price.
Floats, bands and ballets
The parade began with the float of the Belleas of the Foc, Adriana Vico and Valentina Tárragaand his ladies of honor. They started applause in their path, and inaugurated the act with the company, meters behind, of the greatest representatives of the Valencia and Castellón festivities.
For the Alicante, the folk parade, surnamed “international” for the participation of immigrant communities, is an opportunity to discover the occasional cultural feature of the rest of the world; But precisely for many neighbors of foreign origin, the parade also serves to fix, for example, in the differences of clothing between the beauties of the Alicante Bonfires, the Valencian Falleras and the Queens of the Magdalena.
Some other striking learning were, such as those who discovered that in San Vicente del Raspeig Bonfires are also planted. “And in Elda, Fallas,” another person replied from the public. “And on what date?”, He rerected him in a conversation that, he seems, can make visitors to other holidays in the province. Cultural exchange, as can be seen, is bidirectional.
From the province of Alicante the representations of L'Alueña, Monóvar, Benejúzar, Crevillent, Pilar de la Horadada, Hondón de las Nieves, Aspe and Pinoso. The Pinoseros again won the public's favor by distributing a small tasting of the delicates of the municipality: wines, sweets, but especially sausages.
Of the rest of Spain, ambassadors of the parties of Burriana, Murcia and Zaragoza They shared float to get their love to Alicante these big days. From the same Alicante, members of the neighborhood parties and Moors and Christians They also said present. And obviously, the Fiesta de la Cruz and the Crescent did it with all its galas and its color. Special mention also deserves the flamenco touch of the great participation of the House of Andalusia.
Music to power
The music, separately, was the most varied. Collas with sweets and tablesbands in different records, from some similar to Easter music to others that touched the charanga, passing how not because of the most traditional pasodobles. In the middle of the parade, the different comparsas of the Carnival of Torrevieja They put more danceable songs while their components, creatively disguised, made the rest on the asphalt. The Salt queens They closed the large Torrevejense participation on the afternoon of Monday Alicante.
The foreign communities that shared their traditions and their flags with Alicante were Uruguay, Georgia, Ukraine, Paraguay, Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia, Argentina and Ecuador. Uruguayan drums, Ukrainian clothing, live music offered by Paraguay at the blow of harp and guitar, the Guacamaya float And the traditional Venezuelan dances, the color and the Colombian flavor, the striking costumes of Bolivia and the joy of the Argentines and Ecuadorians drawn the most entertaining moments of the parade, which was closed by the Cartagenera Salgueiro.
