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Today, Thursday, December 5 at 6:30 p.m., the 2019/2020 Christmas program begins in Cartagena with the lighting of the lights in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento and the inauguration of the nativity scene of the Plaza San Francisco.
Thus starts a month of activities that will try to satisfy the whole family.
The Department of Celebration, Infrastructure, Social Services, Education, Youth and Sports of the City of Cartagena will offer children's areas, workshops, routes and games during this period.
The councilor of Celebrations, Juan Pedro Torralba, has presented the activities that will be carried out at this time with the technician of his department, Juan Manuel Ronda.
Torralba has assured that the Christmas dates will bring to the municipality "tradition, color, warmth and modernity" on days when family and friends meet and reunite.
The Christmas lights will be turned on at 6:30 pm from the Town Hall Square with the assistance of the mayor, Ana Belén Castejón, and mayor of the Government and the Municipal Corporation.
One of the main attractions of this year's lighting is the large ball with a six-meter-diameter door installed in this square, as well as a source of lights in the roundabout of the Gates of Madrid, and a cone of lights of 14 meters high in square of Spain.
Also noteworthy is the renovation of lights and decoration in the main street and Castellini square.
After the ignition, the nativity scene of the Plaza San Francisco will be inaugurated, which will be open until January 6.
The gospel group Zamdem will liven up the event with a live musical performance.
This year's nativity scene has more than 700 figures by artisans Nicolás Almansa and Juan Antonio Griñán.
Francisco Alarte was responsible for its assembly, who has been doing it since its creation in 1975. Alarte has included new anachronisms in the biblical representation, recreating in one of the scenes the facade of the Church of Santiago de Santa Lucía, which are coming to be added to others from previous years, such as the Cartagena mills or the churches of La Caridad or del Carmen.
ACTIVITY PROGRAM
On Sunday, December 8 from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., the SOI Foundation, together with the La Calle Salsa Association, participants and attendees can start providing toys for the collection campaign that will be organized by the Department of Social Services of the City Council of Cartagena.
On Thursday, December 12, the campaign to collect new toys officially begins.
Until December 27, anyone can participate by going to the central courtyard of the San Miguel Administrative Building.
On Saturday, December 14 at 12 noon, the Town Hall Square will host a National Festival of School Musical Bands.
On that same day and at the same place at 7 pm, a Christmas Gang Festival will be held.
Groups from La Aljorra, Molinos Marfagones, Tallante and Isla Plana will participate.
On Sunday, December 15, there will be a day full of Christmas music.
The Church of Santa Florentina de La Palma will host at noon a concert of carols of the Carthagonova Polyphonic Choir.
At 12:30 pm, the Santa Cecilia Musical Artistic Society will offer a music concert in the Town Hall Square.
To end this live music day, this same stage will host another carol concert, in this case the Cartagena Conservatory of Music.
On Wednesday, December 18, the Plaza del Tulipán will be the venue from 11 to 13 hours of a carol concert of the choir of the Colegio Nuestra Señora de Los Dolores.
On Friday, December 20, the activities and shows dedicated to the little ones begin.
The Heroes de Cavite Square will host inflatables for children until December 30.
The opening hours to the public will be from 11 am to 2 pm and from 5 pm to 8 pm.
In addition, Plaza San Francisco will host until January 3 'Christmas in Shalambá' where there will be workshops and children's games.
At 6:30 pm, there will be a children's musical, 'Sonrilandia', in the Town Hall Square.
At 20:30 hours, this same place will host the concert of the orchestra 'La Prima'.
On Saturday, December 21, the Town Hall Square will host two events.
On the one hand, there will be the concert of the band Sauces at 12:30.
In addition, at 6:30 p.m., the children's musical 'Christmas Story' will be offered.
On Sunday, December 22, the Carthagonova Musical Union and the Son del Malecón group will fill the Plaza del Cartagena Town Hall with music and rhythm.
On Monday, December 23, the Town Hall Square will host the solidarity festival 'We Sweeten Christmas' with the help of Onda Cero.
There will be shows and surprises for all audiences.
On Tuesday, December 24, the Good Evening is celebrated in the Town Hall Square with the Stolen group and Los Vecinos del Cuarto.
On Friday 27, a tribute to Frozen will be offered with the children's musical 'Adventure in the snow'.
In the town hall square.
In addition, the Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center will host the theater play 'Siete cabritillos' by the Los Claveles company.
On Saturday, December 28, the Nativity Route will take place through the municipality of Cartagena.
To participate, it is necessary to register in the email inscriptionsfestejos arroba ayto-cartagena.es.
The itinerary will start from the entrance of the Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center.
Another of the highlights of the Christmas program is the Christmas concert that will be offered on Monday, 30 at 8:30 p.m., by the Young Symphony Orchestra of Cartagena at the El Batel Municipal Auditorium.
The concert will be dedicated to Beethoven, which is close to the 250th anniversary of his birth.
Admission costs seven euros.
At 10:30 p.m., the Plaza del Rey de Cartagena hosts the Pre Grapes, the official warming for the Bells that will welcome the year 2020.
The last day of the year will star in the sport.
The San Silvestre Popular Race will travel the main streets of the city to say goodbye to 2019 in full form.
In addition, there will be Old Evening, with the concerts of High Voltage and Nena Rose in the Plaza San Francisco.
Already in 2020, on Friday, January 3, a Roscón de Reyes record will be offered, which will be supported by the COPE Chain.
You can taste from 19 hours in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento de Cartagena.
On Saturday, January 4, the Consistorial Palace of Cartagena will become a Christmas projection, the Video Mapping sponsored by Repsol.
It will take place in the Town Hall Square from 7:30 p.m.
On Sunday, January 5, the day before Reyes, the day will begin at 11:30 am, with the arrival of the Magi by boat to the Port of Cartagena.
In the Town Hall Square, Your Majesties of the East will have prepared a welcome with music and inflatables.
At 6:30 p.m., the Three Kings' Cavalcade will begin, which will tour the center of the city of Cartagena.
As the date approaches, more details of the route and the safety device to be prepared will be counted.
On December 12, floats will be raffled among local residents' associations.
NEIGHBORHOODS AND DIPUTATIONS
The different neighborhoods and towns of the municipality of Cartagena will also have their program of activities.
There will be a Christmas train, parades, workshops, brass bands and storytelling.
The activities can be consulted in detail in the attached program.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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