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As every year the parties of the neighborhood of San Pedro de Las Torres de Cotillas held their Encounter of Auroros, which took place yesterday, June 23, in its eighth edition.
Organized by the Virgen del Rosario bell of Las Torres de Cotillas in collaboration with the Department of Culture, it started at dawn with the singing of the Rosario de la Aurora.
The program continued with a Eucharist celebrated by the parish priest Ismael Sánchez in the chapel of the neighborhood and sung by the Auroros, to which end a tasting of donuts with chocolate was made.
In this meeting took part in this ingrained appointment the bells of auroros of Alcantarilla, Javalí Nuevo, Javalí Viejo, La Copa de Bullas, Santa Cruz and Crevillente, as well as the hostess.
"This is one of the most beautiful traditions of Las Torres de Cotillas, which was recovered in 2011 after it disappeared nearly half a century ago," explains the mayor, Joaquín Vela Fernández, who highlights the love that the members of the bell Virgen del Rosario in this maintenance work and dissemination of a custom so typical of the Torrena garden.
with which its components are rescuing Salves del Rosario, De los Muertos, the Our Father and other popular compositions that in their day, between the darkness of the night and the light of the new day, sang the "auroras" of the town until the middle of the decade of the 40 of the last century to wake up the neighbors and to attend the first mass, as well as to sing to the deceased in his day.
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After the corresponding festive warming, Friday June 28 will be the official start of these celebrations in the Plaza de la Ermita with the proclamation by Alfonso Vicente (22 hours).
A night that will not miss the sardine in the style of San Pedro and attendees will enjoy the performance of the Nerea duo. On Saturday, June 29, at 10:30 a.m. with the XII Bicycle Bike Luncheon, on a morning when the smaller can play for free on the mats that will be installed and where the 12th edition of the youth soccer championship will begin.
At night there is a great free evening (21:30) with the concert of the band Las Torres de Cotillas and the musical group Two Twenties. To close these celebrations, on Sunday June 30 will take place at first hour a parade (8 hours) through the neighborhood, with a visit included to the neighbors of the music band Los Levantinos.
At 11 o'clock there will be a Eucharist, after which the parade will continue.
The traditional pilgrimage procession of the patron saint will start at night (21 hours), at the end of which a large fireworks display will put an end to the festivities.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Las Torres de Cotillas
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