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The Minister of Culture and Tourism of the Region of Murcia, Pedro Alberto Cruz, highlighted in his opening speech of the opening of Carnival Cartagena "the historical value of this event and character, and groundbreaking avant garde."
The regional head of tourism said that this conclusion "is old, wise and full of legend" in the town, which makes it the "Mare Nostrum carnival, carnival of history", and that all elements of the party were already present in contemporary rituals and celebrations that the Roman Cartagena held on these dates.
Cruz said both locals and foreigners living this event in Cartagena in an "open, free, deeply felt and enjoyed better" and that is the necessary prelude to a Holy Week "here live with a rigor and an exceptional spiritual sense" .
Also, the Minister referred to the precursors of the current carnival rites in the days of Roman rule.
He recalled the counselor, at the time, come February, it held, among other traditions, the purification of the home, the blessing of the furnaces and the spell of evil spirits of winter, all under the auspices of the goddess Februa, mother of Mars.
Pedro Alberto Cruz Cartagena praised that can boast of a "tradition deep, pure, old, solid, real and magical at the time," after which he reflected on the antagonism between Don Carnal and Doña Lent, "a classic struggle without which Current Party would not have the same meaning. "
Source: CARM
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