Benidorm starts its great days of celebration

The Festes Majors Patronals 2017 of Benidorm have started officially today. Previously, at 10.00 in the morning a mass was sung by the Cultural and Recreational Association 'La Barqueta' in the Parochial Church of San Jaime and Santa Ana. Next the doors of the temple have been opened and they have sung the ' Joy to the Virgin. ' At the time of the Angelus, at noon, the general ringing of bells and the subsequent aerial bombardment have confirmed that Benidorm is already living its holidays.

At 12.15, the Band of Music started from Plaza de San Jaime to go to Plaza de SS MM los Reyes de España accompanying the queens of the Major Festivities, Anna Galiana and Àngela Antón. There, 500 musicians, before thousands of neighbors and visitors have interpreted the pasodoble 'Fiesta in Benidorm' led by its author, the master Rafael Doménech, whom the queens have given a commemorative baton. The Colla de Xirimiters de la Marina, the Bandeta Jove de Altea, the Alegre Sinfónica de La Nucía, the Xaló Music Group, the La Aurora de Sella Music Society, the La Vila Ateneu Musical, the Societat Musical La Lira Relleuense, the Musical Union La Primitiva de Castell de Castells, the Municipal Band of Yeles (Toledo), the Societat Musical la Nova de Benidorm, the Musical Society l'Illa de Benidom and the Unió Musical de Benidom. The concentration has ended with a pyrotechnic show.

In addition to the queens, the mayor of the city, Toni Pérez, was present at these events; the councilman of Fiestas, Jesús Carrobles, and a large representation of the municipal corporation; Senator Agustín Almodóbar; the regional deputy, Manuel Pérez Fenoll; the president of the Comissió, Antonio Vicente Fuster; that of the Association of Penyes 'Verge del Sofratge', Mariano Nájera; the Abanderado 2017, Miguel Riquelme, mayorales and mayorales of honor.