Almost 4,000 people in the Entrance of Peñas, anteroom of the Festes Majors Patronals

The traditional Entrance of Peñas gathered almost 4,000 people and thousands of neighbors and visitors in the parade that is the informal start of the festivities that officially began this morning. The supporters gathered before 22.00 hours around Ruzafa Street from where, half an hour later, they began their journey through the center of the city, passing by the stage located at the confluence of Martinez Alejos and Gambo streets. .

There, the mayor of Benidorm, Toni Pérez, was waiting for them; the councilman of Fiestas, Jesús Carrobles; companions of corporation; the queens Mayor and Infantile, Anna Galiana and Àngela Antón and their courts of honor; and the presidents of the Comissió de Festes Majors Patronals 2017 and of the Association of Penyes 'Verge del Sofratge', Antonio Vicente Fuster and Mariano Nájera. All the clubs received lots of gifts and commemorative bows for the 2017 festivities were imposed on the flags and standard bearers.

This year the official census of festeros ascends to 3,763 people, who are distributed in the 197 clubs that make up the Associació de Penyes and another 20 that are not in this organization.