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This exhibition has more than a hundred animals and new artisan workshops, such as aromas and carrier pigeons.

For the first time, the exhibition will feature a snail farm and animals such as the Murcian flatbread and the dairy cow, as well as donkeys, horses and oxen, among others.

Simultaneously, in Lieutenant Flomesta will take place the sample of pets for adoption of the City of Murcia.

The mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, accompanied by the Councilor for Culture and Heritage Recovery, Jesús Pacheco, and the Councilor for Sports and Health, Felipe Coello, inaugurated this morning the 'Sample of native animals and craft workshops', in the Teniente Flomesta gardens, which until Sunday 8 will be the scene of this activity at the Murcia Fair, with more than a hundred animals and new artisan workshops.

“This exhibition finds its roots in the old cattle fair that was held years ago and in the old traditional crafts crafts of the Huerta de Murcia,� said the mayor, who explained that “the sample includes educational talks about the care of each one of the species and animal welfare, as well as numerous traditional workshops, such as esparto and stringing of chairs, recovering the tools and products that Murcia used to use �.

The exhibition, distributed in thirty tents and twenty tables, can be visited from today until Sunday, from 11 am to 10 pm, on Teniente Flomesta Avenue.

The exhibition shares space with the sample of pets for adoption that the City Council of Murcia organizes each year, with the aim of providing a new home to the animals in charge of the Zoonosis service.

A new snail and pet farm for adoption

As a novelty, this year the families will be able to know the characteristics, the care and the food that the Murcian chats and the dairy cows need, in addition to the attention that donkeys, horses, oxen, goats and Murcian canaries, partridges, turkeys, rabbits need , pigeons (among which is the 'Murcia creek', native breed of the Region, descendant of the 'old Murcian buchón') and chickens.

In addition, the exhibition will feature for the first time a snail farm.

Esparto, castanets, carrier pigeons and aroma workshops

In total, 14 workshops will be held by artisans, who will wear traditional clothing at all times.

As a novelty, there will be educational talks about aromas (creation of perfumes), of cane castanets (made with a piece of light cane) and of stringing chairs.

Workshops on esparto crafts, honey, iron, cheese, bread, cultivation, pottery, cane chicharras, silk, handmade cages and carrier pigeons will also be taught, teaching the public how to prepare a message and place it on the dove.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia