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The "Bell Auroros Virgen del Rosario" of Cotillas Towers, true to its traditions, came in the night of Tuesday April 30 the streets of the town Torreño to sing the popular "Mays" in honor of the Virgin.
This is the popular custom of welcoming the fifth month of the year, which did not miss the famous letter that begins, "We are already fulfilled this April thirty, ladies rejoice May has come ...".
The tour started in the evening at the door of the Hermitage of San Pedro, where they had-as tradition-with a beautiful cross of flowers.
Then moved to the Chapel of the Cross, that these days celebrates its festivals, then go visiting other prominent places of the municipality.
Among them, the headquarters of the local guilds, where everyone's got his own cross of flowers, which is the sign of identity of the day.
"And so until dawn and until the forces endured" point from this group Torrena.
Tradition recovered
This tradition was recovered in 2011 in Las Torres de Cotillas after she disappeared over 50 years ago, with which its components are rescuing Salves del Rosario, All Souls, the Lord's Prayer and other popular compositions in his day, in the darkness of the night and the light of the new day, sang the "aurora" of the people until the mid 40s of last century to wake the neighbors and to travel to the first Mass and to sing to the deceased at the time .
Thus, in this line the group rehearsing Torrena-Social Center Torreño neighborhood of Los Vicentes-celebrates its own "Auroros Meeting" at the end of June, showing pride in his campaign, according to scholars, would be mid-eighteenth century.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Las Torres de Cotillas
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