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The maintainer of the act Vicente Pérez Zaragoza made an emotional review of the musical history of the Festes Majors Patronals

Benidorm crowns its Queens 2018 Anna Calbo and Fatima Carrobles at Palau d'Esports

13 January 2018
Benidorm corona a sus Reinas 2018 Anna Calbo y Fátima Carrobles en el Palau d'Esports

This Saturday the Palau d'Esports l'Illa of Benidorm hosted for the second year in a row, one of the most important and emotional events of the festive atmosphere of the city: the coronation of the queens of its Major Festivities. A ceremony that brought together more than one thousand five hundred people to crown the new queens, the girl Anna Calbo García and the young Fátima Carrobles Espinosa who since today have become the maximum festeras representatives of Benidorm.

Mª Angeles Vergara and Sara Llorca were in charge of presenting the event, beginning with the presence of its president Francisco Marín Hinarejos, the banner of the commission carried by the honorary president Francisco Llorens Orts and the standard-bearer Miguel Riquelme García.

Later the thirteen new ladies and fourteen young ladies that make up the Courts of Honor were up on stage accompanied by their families, being presented with future queens, who came under the arms of their respective parents.

The Children and Senior Queens of 2017, Àngela Antón Pérez and Anna Galiana Pérez, as well as their respective Courts of Honor thus put an end to a year of reign and in which both had words of thanks to both the former commissions and associations of parties, as to family and friends.

After the transfer of symbols, Anna Calbo García received the band, the cape and the crown from her predecessor Àngela Antón Pérez, as well as the young Fátima Carrobles Espinosa at the hands of Anna Galiana Pérez.

Already crowned, the president of the Commission handed the badge of honor to the mayor Toni Pérez, and this in turn to the Mayor and Children's Queens and its president. The councilman of Fiestas Jesús Carrobles also presented to the queens of 2017 a replica of the crowns. As a novelty in this edition, the queens exchanged gifts on stage.

The president of the Comissió de Festes, Francisco Marín also wanted to have a detail with the associations that are part of the Major Employer Festivities: ARC La Barqueta, Mariners de la Mare de Deu, Costalers de Sant Jaume, Cambreres de la Mare de Deu and the Association of Penyes.

This year the maintainer of the act was the philologist and musician Vicente Pérez Zaragoza, who made an intimate review of the history of music in the Major Festivities accompanied by interactive elements such as music and illustrative photographs, as well as he paid special attention to the importance and experiences that his family has always had with the Major Festivities.

The Mayor Toni Pérez closed the ceremony by congratulating the new queens and thanking the queens of 2017 for the magnificent reign they have displayed representing the city. The new queens received tribute from the festivals and associations of Benidorm.