Benidorm commemorates with a cultural week the 693 anniversary of the granting of the Poblament Charter

Benidorm commemorates next week the 693 anniversary of the granting of the Poblament Letter by Almirall Bernat de Sarrià on May 8, 1325. On the occasion of this anniversary, the Department of Culture and Festivals, the Grup Carta de Poblament and l ' Associació de Penyes Verge del Sofratge have organized a cultural week that will culminate on Saturday, May 12, with the traditional representation of the act of granting the foundation of the city.

The Councilor for Culture, Ana Pellicer; the mayor of Fiestas, Jesús Carrobles; the president and representatives of the Grup Carta de Poblament, Mª Luz Navarro, Esperanza Rostoll and Jose Mª Mariana; and the president of l'Associació de Penyes, Dani Luque; They have shelled the program of events and have invited supporters and citizens in general to participate in this commemoration.

The person in charge of Culture has indicated that with the commemoration of the Charter of Poblament Benidorm you show that it is "a city of present and future that does not lose sight of the importance of its history, its heritage and its origins".

This monographic week will begin next Tuesday, May 8, at noon with an institutional plenary session in the Plenary Hall. In the afternoon, at 20.30, the Espai d'Art will host the inauguration of the exhibition 'Charter of Poblament dels primers pobladors', designed by the Grup's historian, Vanessa Navarro. The president of the Grup and Rostoll explained that this exhibition "about the first settlers who settled in the Serra Gelada" wanted to "make a nod to the maintainer of the act of representation of the granting of the Poblament Charter, Teresa Orozco, who is a professor of History at the University of Valencia (UV), specializing in Prehistory. "

Wednesday 9 will be the turn of the theater play 'Could happen,' which will be performed at 20.30 in the Hall of the City Hall. The same room will host the next day at the same time a concert of the Orchestra of Cambra i Cors de la Unión Musical.

The closing act of the cultural week will be the representation of the act of granting the Poblament Charter in the Plaza de San Jaime. A "symbolic" representation, as Mariana has pointed out, of how Benidorm was founded and who could be its protagonists and that is run by members of the Associació de Penyes. Within this act, the historian Teresa Orozco will act as maintainer.

The Fiesta Councilor has stressed that this symbolic recreation is now "26 years" and since then "has not stopped growing year after year at the level of representation and impact to be configured as a week full of events." Carrobles has highlighted the "important work" done by the Grup Carta de Poblament and l'Associació de Penyes to "promote" the birth of the current Benidorm.

For his part, the president of the clubs stressed that the Poblament Charter "is the only cultural act of Associació de Penyes and we have to support, take care and pamper him."

Medieval Market

For the third consecutive year, the acts of commemoration of the Poblament Charter are complemented by a medieval market organized by the Independent Association of Merchants (AICO) in collaboration with the Department of Commerce and Fiestas.