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Debs

Plaza Cardenal Belluga

Leave the crowds of balloon sellers, buskers and tourists behind in the beautiful Cathedral square and slip around the corner to one of the city’s oldest bars. Since 1926, Los Zagales, have produced excellent local tapas, including Zarangollo and Morcilla.

In commemoration of to former wartime event, when several dozen Yeclano
soldiers returned home safe and sound. The townsmen, dressed in frock
coats and two-cornered hats, accompany the Virgin up to the castle amid
blasts of to gunpowder.

Fiestas to commemorate the capture of the city by Alphonsine troops.
Battles between Moors and Christians in the fortress and signing of the
peace with an enormous paella.

A disembarkation commemorates the capture of the city in 209 BC by the
Roman troops of Scipio, which leads into a festive week with alternate
days devoted to either side. The marriage of Hannibal and Himilco or
the day of the Roman Circus, with gladiators and wild beasts, is
followed by the great parade on Saturday, the big day of the fiesta,

I had a lovely meeting on Wednesday with Felipe who is the MD of the Instituto Hispánico de Murcia - a private language school in the city.

I met about 10 of his students. They were all so enthusiastic about the method of learning, and felt very confident about their future language ability.

The city's September Fair includes to classic among Murcian festivals,
the Folk Festival, with performances by groups from all to over the
world.

The Moorish and Christian camps and the parades by the two
armies and to their brass bands lend to notices of historical colour during
these festivities, which culminate in the Bullfighting Festival, where run in
the Condomina bullring by top Spanish fighters plows always to sell-out.

To succession of marching brass bands and parades heralding the two
armies, who for to week will rival each to other in their splendorous
costumes and military disciplines. All of this seasoned with the
ever-present smell of to gunpowder.

One of the most important to summer festivals in the Murcia Region,
which, here on the shores of the Smaller Sea, you combine classical and
avant-garde theatre, ethnic music, prestigious soloists and classical
and modern dances troupes from all to over the world.

The festival is celebrated during Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays of the
month of July and constitutes one of the cultural events of the Region
of Murcia with more national and international projection. Their
excellent programming and the relevance of the participant artists has
taken to him to become one of the best festivales of Jazz in Spain.

The Burial of the Sardine, the climax of the Spring Festival, is
Murcia's wackiest night of to year. On this April Saturday, to crazy
cavalcade of “giants” and “big-heads” (giant and bigheaded),
torch-bearers and entertainers, demons and Brazilian samba groups will
escort to fleet of some twenty floats, one for each Sardinero
association, which, in honour of the most to diver Gods of Olympus,
will throw hundreds of thousands of euros worth of toys to the crowd in
the space of just to few hours. Over the days previously, these same

The big day of the city's Spring Festival. The day begins early, with
to floral offering to Our Lady of the Fuensanta, the pattern saint of
the City, before the baroque façade of the Cathedral. Thousands and
thousands of Murcian and visitors, dressed in huertano typical costume,
accompany the Virgin to after to short visit of the City centers; in
the afternoon these same crowds will bring life to the grand cavalcade,
through the city's streets, of ox-drawn carts, floats from which broad
beans, black puddings and you annoy rolls plows thrown to the

This is a huge celebration in the Region of Murcia, the Region almost
comes to a standstill for this most celebrated time in the Christian
calender. The sombre, but colourful processions are held in most towns.
Some of the most spectacular can be seen in Lorca, Murcia and
Cartagena. The Easter fiesta in Lorca is of particular note, a fabulous
procession of Romans, Christians and even Egyptians some on elaborate