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For the second consecutive year, the Municipal Institute of Social Services has organized the activity of the chestnut, in which a group of women from the Barrio Virgen de la Caridad dressed in traditional clothing and utensils for grilling own this nut, visiting different nursing homes and schools, recalling the typical picture of other times in bitter cold days, offering free tastings of these and other handcrafted products.
Wednesday, November 24, Councilman Councilman Social Care, Antonio Calderon, will accompany the group on their visit to the Senior Day Center of El Algar, at ten o'clock.
A visit will be repeated on November 30 in the Nursing Home Care of Cartagena, and it took place a few dates in the Public School Vicente Ros, in intergenerational activities involving lower and higher than this school.
In Cartagena, as in other Spanish cities, the month of November was the arrival of the chestnut, who settled in corners and corners with small cars, where they roasted, besides the aforementioned fruit, sweet potatoes and corn.
These small stalls run by the famous in old chestnut: women with too many years to back that, hardened by the cold, offering the traveler the autumnal delicacy wrapped in paper cones.
His joy in salesmanship made these humble ladies were known in areas bearing the camping stove, the pot and brown bag.
That unmistakable smell of winter and the heat of the grill was a claim on a cold day in search of a snack to keep warm.
Its peculiar shape, with the passage of time is lost in our environment, not only will senior centers and schools this November, but that can be seen again in December, the highest and next exhibition disabilities, organized by the Department of Social Services of the City of Cartagena.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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