The comission of Major Patron Saint Festivities celebrates this Saturday its traditional 'Euro Marathon'

The Comissió de Festes Majors Patronals of Benidorm celebrates this Saturday, September 2, the traditional 'Euro Marathon', an initiative to raise funds for the Major Patronal Festivities next November, with which establishments collaborate every year. hospitality, shops, residents, and tourists of the city. This new edition of the 'Euro Marathon' will begin at 10:00 a.m. on Tomás Ortuño Street, near l'Hort de Colón, from where the placement of all the euros raised for the organization of the subsequent celebrations will begin. which will take place from November 11 to 15.

The Councilor for Festivals, Mariló Cebreros, has invited citizens to collaborate with the Festival Committee and has encouraged people and companies to go during this festive day to l'Hort de Colón to deposit their donations in one euro coins. In addition, she recalled that, as is usual, the queens of the Festes Majors Patronals, Angélica Morenilla Such and Daniela Talavera Ventura, will tour the establishments in the commercial areas with their bridesmaids to collect donations.

Cebreros has indicated that "in addition to collaborating by making this donation in the form of euro coins, those who wish can also go to the bar that the Commission will install and have a sandwich or a soft drink"

For his part, the president of the 2023 Festival Committee, Vicente Solaz, has requested the selfless help of neighbors and tourists to “join in favor of our Festivals.” He also recalled that “33 years have passed since a group of the members of the Fiestas commission, in 1990, came up with the idea of organizing “The 20 Duros Marathon”, as this event was initially called.

Finally, the festival leader has stated that, in addition to collaborating in person, another way to participate in this fundraising is the now-famous “#UnMetrePerLaFesta”. To do this, those interested can take a photograph with one meter of euros (which is 43 euro coins) and send the image and the money to the Commission's office, in Casa del Fester, until this Friday or deliver it on the same Saturday. in person.