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The Cartagena Carnival continues this Friday, February 21, in which children and adults have their special role, with a school parade that has toured the center of Cartagena in the morning and a costume party in the afternoon in the that members of senior clubs will enjoy the beautiful at Molinos Marfagones.
SCHOOL CARNIVAL
The school parade, which involved around 1,200 children from seven schools in the municipality of Cartagena, accompanied by teachers and parents, started at 11:00 am to tour the streets of the city center with ready-made costumes in the schools themselves.
The participating schools have been: EE Hazin, CEIP Antonio Ulloa, EE Hazin, CEIP La Concepcion, CEIP Antonio Oliver, Sacred Heart of Jesus Patronage College, CEIP Mare Nostrum and CEE Primitiva López, who arrived aboard a score of buses.
The head of the Department of Education, Irene Ruiz, has participated in the parade.
The tour began in the Plaza de Juan XXIII, Santa Florentina, Calle del Carmen, San Roque, Jabonerías, Puertas de Murcia, Plaza de San Sebastián, Calle Mayor and ended in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento.
The little ones have worn carnival costumes and outfits made during the last weeks in the schools themselves.
An activity coordinated by the Department of Education of the City of Cartagena with the schools themselves.
CARNIVAL OF ELDERLY
In the afternoon, the protagonists will become the elders, with their traditional carnival, which this year hosts the Los Molinos Garden at 5:00 p.m.
Once again, the Department of Social Services celebrates Carnival with the Elderly.
During the months of January and February, the workshops in Barriada Virgen de la Caridad, La Manga, La Palma, Molinos Marfagones, San José Obrero, La Aljorra and Santa Ana have been developed. The costumes, accessories and dances and choreographies have been rehearsed, to debut at the traditional Carnival party, to which the mayor, Ana Belén Castejón, is scheduled to attend;
the vice mayor and councilor of the Welfare and Sports area, Noelia Arroyo;
the Councilor for Social Services, Mercedes Gómez;
and the Councilor for Security, Participation and Celebrations, Juan Pedro Torralba.
Then the contest of parades will take place, where the seven registered groups from the neighborhoods named above will perform and the candidates for the Carnival King and Queen will parade.
Next, a lively dance will be held by the Showman Pedro Luís García Cove.
A total of 400 seniors from the different municipalities of Cartagena are expected to attend the party, as well as the 55 seniors from the town of Ogíjares de Granada, who come as guests, accompanied by the Councilor for the Elderly, Fiesta and Tourism of that town .
The event will end with the appointment of the King, Queen and the carnival ladies of greater 2020 and the awards ceremony to the participating groups by the jury: Originality, Sympathy, Staging, Elaboration, Greater Participation, Better Interpretation and creativity.
On Saturday 22, the major groups will go out again to participate in the great parade of Cartagena, accompanied by the float of the king, the queen and their two ladies.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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