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The mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, together with the Councilor for Employment, Tourism and Culture, Jesus Pacheco, today presented to the representatives of Their Majesties the Kings of the East in the Municipality of Murcia, "who will honor our city with three gifts : equality, security and solidarity;
three values ​​that suppose a recognition to the coexistence ".
Specifically, the representatives of the Three Kings are the president of the Committee of Representatives of People with Disabilities of the Region of Murcia (CERMI), Pedro Martinez Lopez, the colonel director of the General Air Academy, Miguel Ivorra Ruiz, and the volunteer of Cáritas Siaka Coulibaly.
In the act, which also was presented to the Christmas Star, which this year will be the Infant Queen of Huerta 2018, Alba Ros Garcia, the representatives of Melchor, Gaspar and Baltasar expressed their "illusion and tremendous joy for this appointment that will allow them to live the most magical Twelfth Night of their lives ".
Tour of the city and reception at City Hall
This year, for the second consecutive year, on their morning tour of the city of Murcia on January 5, the Kings will visit the Hospital Morales Meseguer, where they will give joy and excitement for the new year to the elderly.
Later, they will go through the Press Association and they will make their traditional visit to the Virgen de la Arrixaca Hospital, where they will fill the children of the Mother and Child with gifts.
At noon they will arrive at Belluga, where they will be received by the mayor and they will greet from the balcony, and they will receive the rest of the Murcian children in the Plenary Hall of the Town Hall, who will receive a gift.
The Queen of England Band will open the Parade
In the afternoon, the Parade will leave at 6:00 p.m.
"This year will have about 70 elements among comparsas, groups and floats," said Councilman Jesus Pacheco, who added that "the floats have been made specifically for this great parade, like music, with original songs;
a parade that has as a thread the classic and traditional stories ".
The Band that realizes the Change of the Real Guard in Buckingham Palace will open the Cavalcade.
It is the oldest musical group of the British Army, with a history of more than 300 years.
The day before, Friday, January 4, The Band of The Grenadier Guards' (United Kingdom) will offer a parade along the Gran Vía as a pre-action to the night of Kings.
Following the theme of the parade, traditional stories will be distributed ('The musicians of Bremen', 'Hansel and Gretel', 'Pinocchio', 'Little Red Riding Hood', etc.), among the youngest, to encourage reading.
It will be a parade of about two hours with numbers and international groups (French and English comparsas), which will add light and magic to the elements that have become essential of the Cabalgata, such as the representation of Real Murcia, the cast of muffins or the old vehicle of the Firemen.
There will also be a representation of the passage from the Flight to Egypt, with a Virgin Mary embodied by the Queen of La Huerta 2018, Laura Navarro, and a group of small shepherds.
The ride will depart from San Juan de la Cruz Avenue, C / Mozart, and Torre de Romo, Cerón Brothers, Alameda de Colón, Camachos Plaza, Martínez Tornel, Gran Vía Salzillo and Avenida de la Constitución.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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