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The main balcony of the Consistorial Palace has once again hosted the traditional act of the Call with which every Ash Wednesday officially begins the countdown of Holy Week in Cartagena.
Previously, from seven o'clock in the afternoon the general councils of the four brotherhoods began to meet in their respective headquarters, to take stock of the year and to agree to take the processions to the street.
The resurrected ones met in the street Palas;
the marshes, in the alley of Bretau;
the Californios, in Calle del Aire, and those of Socorro, in the Real Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País.
All together, they went to the Consistorial Palace, with their respective elder brothers at the head and the sounds of a charnga, to communicate their decision to the mayor.
200 THOUSAND EUROS, MUSIC AND THE STREET
Before the expectant public gathered in front of the Town Hall around eight thirty in the afternoon, the president of the Board of Brotherhoods, Manuel Martinez, announced the unanimous decision of the councils of the four brotherhoods to take the processions to the street to celebrate the Holy Week.
The president of the Board of Brotherhoods expressed to the mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, his intention to begin "a multitude of events that will lead to the magic night of Friday of Dolores" and exposed the general and substantial character of the parades , since, he assured, "Holy Week can not be understood without Cartagena and Cartagena can not be understood without its Holy Week".
The mayor, Ana Belén Castejón, took the witness then and, after thanking the four brotherhoods for their effort, she gave her permission in the name of the town of Cartagena so that the processions go out into the street.
He also recognized the perfection of these processions "thanks to the tenacity and work of all the brotherhoods."
The mayor also stressed the "uniqueness" of the Holy Week in Cartagena, "while in the rest of Spain they sleep, the night of Friday of Dolores begins."
Finally, the mayor handed over to the president of the Board of Brotherhoods the expected "check" with the municipal subsidy for processions, which this year will amount to 200 thousand euros, 20 thousand more than in the last eight years.
After revealing the amount for this Holy Week, began a procession to the cry of "Music and the Street" with sounds of the best known and popular Holy Week marches announcing the news to the rest of citizens, to conclude at the Church of Charity where the usual offering to the Patroness took place.
PREGÓN EL SATURDAY
The next significant act will be the proclamation of the processions, which this year will be borne by Ángel Julio Huertas, and the appointment of Mariana Larios as a major nazarene.
The proclamation will take place this Saturday, February 17, in the Isidoro Máiquez room of the El Batel Auditorium.
It will be at 20 hours with free admission, until full capacity is reached.
It will also be broadcast live on the internet through the municipal news channel of the City of Cartagena on Youtube and will have, as it happened last year, a more current format, since the speech of the town crier will be accompanied by musical settings and projections of pictures.
It will be the second year in which the proclamation will take place sufficiently early, at the beginning of Lent.
Until last year was celebrated on Friday of Dolores, when Easter Cartagena, the early morning of Spain, had already begun.
The interest aroused last year, in which the UPCT auditorium was too small, has led the mayor to propose its celebration at a larger capacity, such as the main hall of the Batel Auditorium.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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