La Puebla celebrates this month of June its patron saint festivities in honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which will run until Sunday June 25, and will include masses, the XXIX Pilgrimage of Santa Maria del Buen Aire, competitions, the traditional Day of the Potato, foam and water festival, as well as live music concerts.
The activities will begin at the Diputación cartagenera this Sunday, June 4, with the traditional Potato Day, which reaches its tenth edition this year.
Thus, a day has been organized with handmade market, exhibition of varieties of potatoes of the Campo de Cartagena, competitions of launching potatoes to the pot, tastings and the inauguration of the new avenue José Manuel Claver.
On Friday, June 9, coinciding with the Day of the Autonomous Community, will be the Day of the Elderly, with Mass in memory of the deceased in the last year and brotherhood food.
On Friday 16 will be the coronation gala to the Romera of the year and the Courts of honor for children and youth.
On Saturday 17 there will be Holy Mass of Corpus Christi and procession of the Most Holy Body of Christ.
On Sunday, the 18th, a concentration of old motorcycles has been scheduled and a tapas competition, whose limit of performance of plates is at 14.00 hours.
On Monday, June 19 will be the Housewives 'Day, with food of brotherhood and election of the Queen of the Housewives of 2017. On Tuesday 20 there will be a theatrical performance by the group of children's theo- ry of La Puebla, who will interpret' The doctor at Molière 's and on Wednesday 21st, Children' s Day, there will be children 's attractions in the Festival Hall and chocolatada with scones.
On the other hand, on Thursday 22 there will be an offering of flowers to the patron and Santa Misa eve of the patron.
Then, at night, the traditional dinner has been programmed with sausages, eggs and bread for the rocks and neighbors of La Puebla, and great feast of the foam.
On Friday 23, the feast day of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, there will be solemn Mass concelebrated and procession in honor of the patron, in addition to concert of David Bisbal's double, Ismael Monteagudo, and discombile.
On Saturday 24, already in the final stretch of the festivities, there will be a great paella, water festival and the XXIX Pilgrimage of Santa María del Buen Aire will be celebrated, with procession, Roman Mass and song of the Salve Rociera.
In the evening, there will be variety show and discomóvil.
Finally, on Sunday, June 25, there will be a pilgrimage, paella contest, verbena and, to close the celebrations of this 2017, great castle of fireworks of end of celebrations.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena