The festivities of a people represent their soul.
Time of reunions, family, friends, vacations and celebration especially of something that defines a human community throughout centuries.
A party, a manifestation of exhilaration or tradition is a collection of values, emotions and feelings, celebrating the revived past by the grounds of a long walk in common.
A party is the knowledge and taste of a people, what a society of the moment knows, thinks, feels, in a display of popular demonstrations, fixed aspects that do not change with the passing of the years, a plural and collective memory of events and celebrations that occur from generation to generation, an imitation of the heart of a people, of their customs and beliefs beating in unison in the frenzy of belonging, identity, human seal.
In addition, some parties involve the breakdown of amazing daily life, of life in code in muted chords of monotony, are milestones that are expected / desired, that unite a whole group around its preparation and development, in a well-achieved formula of citizen participation, showing the best of a town to its visitors and calling their children from the diaspora to a return that is combined in family and friendship.
The festivities are thus broken in the evolution of the times, synonymous with leisure, joy, play, gratuitousness, magic and fantasy, overflowing joy, explosion of exuberance, dancing, music from all over the world, gastronomy, colorful costumes, clutter of rocks and other various spheres of rich, valuable culture and, therefore, quality to be born from the popular base.
A municipality like Las Torres de Cotillas is a group of people who maintain and transmit their uses, customs and history, with that sensitive predilection and touch for the old, for that idiosyncrasy and beliefs that are conserved with lineage lineage zeal, from parents to children and that gives them a mark of distinction and difference with neighboring towns.
The most significant expressions of the human being, the festivities as a community celebration, grant a pleasant memory deposit, argument of myths, legends and mentalities, source of stories, songs, songs, ... The parties of a town are part of an atavism of collective that is born from a connection of people to each other, of different human groups, is history and memory, memories, group hopes that exorcise depressions, sadnesses, routines to give rise and content to the cheerful, the sensory, the fullness of the senses of emotion,...
That is why every party is a key piece in the life of a people in order to assimilate events and move with confidence towards the future because having the force of rituals, traditions is to put context, reference, experiences, expectations, vitalism, integration, receptivity, participation in moments of joy, peace, well-being, festive hustle, ... A party town is present of hope and guarantee, of identity, it should be reiterated.
The party is an expression of profane vitality and popular religiosity in equal parts and this philosophy is felt in Las Torres de Cotillas where hundreds of years ago thousands and thousands of neighbors, devotees, visitors in immense numbers gather so much to venerate the Excelsa Patroness of Our Lady of Salceda and also worship solemnity, passion and splendor to the images of our Holy Week as participate in cultural, sporting and recreational events, all of them with overflowing power to bring crowds to the street of clubs, brotherhoods, spectators, own and foreign.
A whole town mobilized in manifestations of jubilation and mass devotion, without distinctions of age, class or condition, where the generational relief of cofrades, bearers, Nazarenes, partying peņistas, is guaranteed and is a simile of safeguarding and dissemination of our cultural roots and identity, encourage at the same time to keep active the social pulse of a municipality that has in this way an enormous and inexhaustible heritage based on the wicker of antiquity, the roots, the projection, importance and regional weight, quality and quality. uniqueness of the own thing, an accumulation of decisive factors together with the existence of a traditional and established hospitality fabric and of optimal equipment for the good development of any celebration and the increasing influx of visitors to achieve that our employer celebrations - with their faithful allegory of the Raspajo- and Holy Week - impressive parade of thrones, imagery and human element of penitents with e
The emblematic "dance of the Saints" as a triumphant climax of apotheosis- receive from the Autonomous Government the well deserved distinction of Regional Tourist Interest Festivities.
Let's move all the chips to achieve this seal of quality, recognizing with that luster of honor all the good that is done in our municipality.
Juan José Ruiz Moņino.
Source: JJRM