Portal de Las Torres de Cotillas
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In the Region of Murcia began to spread the fashion of the Christmas Nativity scene in the seventeenth century when the Augustinian nuns of the City of Segura mounted an immense set of figures of 27 square meters, today disappeared.
A great paragon of art and devotion that would have its continuity a century later in the Birth that the sculptor Francisco Salzillo developed and that would mark the traditional Murcian and Baroque style of the Nativity scenes.
And if we stick to this monumentality of the Nativity scenes of this land, we cannot contemplate what we can contemplate in Las Torres de Cotillas since an extraordinary assembly was born almost eight decades ago, the result of an arduous work combined with similar illusion and faith in the well done and divine, a Birth with a heart, history and dedication to tell and appreciate in itself.
This is the Bethlehem of the Egea Almaida family, a referent of a religiosity proclaimed to the four winds and in itself a prodigy of detail, of meticulous preciousness, unprecedented, taking care of even the least in terms of lighting, constructions, figures, .. , distribution of all the elements that, in several heights, make this combination of beauty a reference of those many traditions that the Torreņa town treasures and that year after year receives the visit at number 4 of the picturesque Calle de la Cruz (in the patio of the family business of hardware store) of countless neighbors and foreigners as a claim, showcase of those wonders that, from the hand of man, put face and love to what symbolizes all renewed Christmas: happiness, holiness, health, message of God born.
And this symbolism continues in the municipality of Torreņo with another jewel of Birth that, also in a big way in quality and content, monumental, in a word, exposes at its headquarters in Calle Principe, number 26, a Peņa that, since close Forty years old, he has our ancestral folklore and customs throughout Spain and outside of it, "L´Almazara", a group of men and women gathered to make quality marks of their people wherever they are and go.
And the peculiarity is exquisiteness in our municipality for reasons that are more than enough and as far as these dates take place, this characteristic takes place by the Bethlehem of Huerta's style of thousands and thousands of wooden clothespins - up to 20,000 of those of laying clothes on any neighbor's house- that, making history in the context of the Region, mounted both at his home in Calle Campo, number 27 and at the public level in the town of Torreņa and in other areas of our land (Molina de Segura, Mula or Puerto Lumbreras ) Francisco Romero father and son, the first at the 2007 Honorary Craftsman of the Autonomous Community for his skill in the work of stew and basketry of esparto - in memory always Uncle Paco - and both teachers also in the art of music Murcia folk folk
And from the tradition we will also pass on this Christmas 2019 to the new, to an initiative that begins with a claw, enthusiasm and spirit of participation such as the one that has as an epicenter of activity and dynamism those that waste like La Florida and that will roll back this neighborhood Torreņo two millennia in time because the neighbors of this district emerged at the socaire of the disappeared cannery whose select brand gave it its name a hundred years ago will be figurants this Saturday, December 21, of a Living Bethlehem that will include representative scenes of old trades and uses of the past.
A laudable activity of collective effort in a team, with a harmonious framework of delivery of the inhabitants of La Florida in what comes to be a project that is presumed of great depth, ambitious, beautiful and with a view to enduring, something that begins with firm footing to consolidate from now on as one of the quintessential appointments of Christmas Torreņa, of that period where neighbors, family and friends meet and congratulate in a desire for peace, hope, to materialize those dreams for those that were offered in the first manger of History.
In short, a Living Bethlehem that of Florida while I live interactive, a beneficial wave of visual reality, with an intense heart, harmony and coexistence of the neighbors of a neighborhood with a promising horizon of shared goals.
With the heart in your hand, with endearing emotion, as sincere yearning for rich and eternal blessings, Merry Christmas to all from a municipality, the Bethlehem is set up with the best of intentions, outdoors and in full view.
Juan José Ruiz Moņino
Source: JJRM
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