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The Spring Festival celebrates 120 years of history and, on the occasion of the anniversary, the City will honor the first baby born in Murcia after the spring equinox, that is, from 10 pm on March 20 .
Ballesta: "We claim with pride that we are Murcia, Murcia is the only place that is reborn every spring"
The mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, has called on all Murcia to "celebrate the spring" with a Bando recorded on video in which representatives of the Federation of Peñas Huertanas with their Queen and Children at the front, the Sardine Group , the Federation of Moors and Christians, the Cabildo Superior de Cofradías, merchants and neighbors.
This 2019, the Spring Festival celebrates 120 years of history and, on the occasion of the anniversary, the City will "pay tribute to the first Murcia born after the spring equinox".
It is a "recognition of the life of those of us who inhabit a city that is life in Spring" -says the Mayor- for the first baby born in the municipality of Murcia, starting at 10 pm on March 20, coinciding with the change of season.
Murcia inaugurates the beginning of Spring and so it must communicate to the world.
Therefore, the City Council "will make every effort that this joy and vitality fill every corner with hundreds of thousands of flowers in parks and gardens and large floral monuments in the squares, the 'Spring Gardens'" and invites all the neighbors to "join the celebration, overflowing with plants and flowers their balconies and gardens.
That all the houses and buildings are filled with color and aromas of Spring.
That the shops decorate their doors and the terraces are full of life.
May the flowers that this Spring decorate the city express our pride of being Murcia.
That our identity be visible and we surprise those who come to our city. "
"Let us vindicate with proud pride that we are Murcia.
Murcia is the land where you can breathe light, a land with history and heart.
Murcia is the only place that every year is reborn in Spring, "says the mayor in the video-Bando.
Renace la Huerta with its orange trees in bloom taking as protagonists neighbors and different representatives of the groups that make possible the celebration of the Spring Festival, the Bando notes that "know who inhabit this land, that the valley of Murcia, with its cadence of orchards, lemon trees, houses and gardens, is defined in the Spring.
Such is its influence in our daily humor, that it would be said that the personality of Murcia is impregnated by it, making them jovial, generous, creative and optimistic ".
"The fertile abundance of the Murcian Spring invites to the celebration of life and rebirth.
The garden renews, life expands;
the acequias and brazales irrigate lemon and orange trees in bloom, and children, birds and crickets orchestrate the joyful chant of our parks and gardens. "
"Exacerbates this time in those who live in Murcia our sense of belonging and love for this land.
This natural environment flourishes in which we live and the atmosphere invites us to go out to the street to enjoy whatever the senses can capture ".
"A joy that leaves its mark on everything that happens in the city, even giving its own personality to our Holy Week.
The rigor and the mourning of this festivity turn into Murcia in a procession of huertanos nazarenos, with tunics of strong colors and embroidered stockings, which in astonishment bewilders with monkeys and candies to neighbors and bystanders ".
"Nature and life are shown in all its splendor in the valley of Murcia, reaching its zenith with the celebration of its cardinal festivities: the Spring Festival, which are admired throughout Spain, and from all over Spain come to share with us these days of joy, light and eye candy ".
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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