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The night of December 30 will take an early New Year's Eve to the Plaza del Rey in Cartagena.
With the sound of Arsenal's heartbeat, citizens and visitors can enjoy pre-grapes to share with friends and family to bid farewell to 2016.
Repeating the event held to end 2015, which coincided with the 150th anniversary of the Arsenal clock, this year the City of Cartagena, through the Culture and Heritage Department and the councils of Youth and Celebrations, reconvene all Cartageneros to dismiss the year in advance.
The councilman of Youth of the City of Cartagena, Ricardo Segado, has announced this morning all the details of this Christmas event, together with the president of Hostecar, Juan Jose Lopez, Josefa Muñoz, one of the drivers of the event, and José Manuel Solloso , An expert in history.
Starting at 11:30 p.m., a festive and informative night will begin in the Plaza del Rey with the modern pre-grapes, as they have been baptized, where everyone will be given a cotillion, music will be given by a charanga and A great cake
With a view to the Military Arsenal, the festival and history will be mixed, dismissing the Year of Modernism and starting the 2017 dedicated to the Enlightenment, when the construction of the building was completed.
The pre-grapes, as popularly known this early New Year's Eve, is celebrated thanks to the collaboration of various associations and entities such as the association of neighbors Virgen de la Caridad, the Cartagena de mi Alma association, the students council of the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Hostecar and the Military Arsenal, to which Patrimonio de Patrimonio, Ricardo Segado, wanted to thank to make the event possible.
Last anticipated New Year's Eve gathered around 300 people, a figure that is expected to exceed far to enjoy the music and the festival, as indicated by the mayor, showing joy of dismissing a great year for Cartagena and his desire to begin another great period Full of culture, celebration, popularization and demand for everything that has to do with the city.
THE ARSENAL CLOCK
The clock of the Arsenal was the work of the watchmaker Jose Rodriguez Losada, one of the most prestigious of the British capital, also author of the clock of the Puerta del Sol, and began to give its beats in the year 1866.
With its installation in the Arsenal, it corresponded to one of the projects of the engineer Tomás Tallerie so that the tower counted on a visible and public watch.
It is a watch that has a pyramidal construction, like the English clocks, and its spheres were manufactured in the own Arsenal.
The old watchmaker of the Arsenal, who died falling from the tower, will pay homage with a bouquet of flowers in this celebration of the grapes.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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