The Mapping Video 'Una Navidad de Cuento', Santa's Little House, the different horse rides and parades or live music allow you to recover a Christmas that has been enjoyed by about 50,000 people.
January the 8th.
The councilor of Celebrations of the City of Lorca, José Ángel Ponce, has taken stock this morning of the extensive program of activities developed during this Christmas and that has allowed about 50,000 people to enjoy these parties again with the quality that a city like Lorca deserves.
Ponce stressed that "from the Department of Celebration and Culture and following the firm commitment of this Government Team with its mayor, Diego José Mateos, at the head we propose a program in which we wanted to enhance cultural activities following Christmas traditions , with our children as protagonists and with a clear purpose, that all Lorca and Lorca should return to live Christmas as it deserves, with a varied leisure offer, according to all tastes and ages and that would allow us to recover life in our streets. "
The Edil has detailed that "the main novelties incorporated this year in the Christmas programming of Lorca have been a success. The Video Mapping 'A Christmas Story', the projection on the facade of the City of Lorca that, in two sessions, was repeated from December 21 to December 23 and from 26 to 30, he has managed to get nearly 19,000 people to fill an abandoned Plaza de España for so many years. "
Ponce Díaz has also revealed that "another of the great novelties of this Christmas, the Santa Claus House filled the streets of our historic center of families who visited with the smallest of the family a Santa Claus who was in Lorca to collect the letters of the most lagging children before Christmas Eve. Some streets that have also received the recovered 'Cavalcade of Illusion', on December 21, and the Grape Parade ', on the 31st. "
"The commitment to live music, with concerts to liven up the popular afternoon or Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve and the granting of permission to increase the capacity of the terraces in the hotel and catering establishments of the city as well as the commissioning of music It has also been key to enhance the responsible leisure we seek to recover and that the group of hoteliers in Lorca have already announced an increase in the occupation of the terraces close to 15 percent over previous years, "explained the Councilor .
José Ángel Ponce has indicated that "the icing on this Christmas was put on by the Cavalcade with which the Magi traveled the streets of our city accompanied by more than fifty figurants and eight floats and culminating in a crowded Plaza de España in the that the arrival to the Bethlehem portal was staged and whose end of the party was a fireworks castle that, for the first time in the history of Lorca, was carried out with a special typology of less sonic explosives to continue betting on inclusion and respect for all those children sensitive to loud sounds as well as the protection of our pets ".
The Councilor of Celebrations has stressed that "it has definitely been days of live music, magic, workshops and activities that have allowed both Lorca and visitors have enjoyed a Christmas as long ago that was not remembered, some dates in which they they have seen the streets of Lorca full of people again ".
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca