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More than a thousand people gathered today in the day of coexistence of the Association of Stewards of the Immaculate Conception, organizer of the festivity of Yecla, which was also attended by the Minister of Culture and the regional government spokesman, Noelia Arroyo, and the mayor of the town, Marcos Ortuño.
This is the meeting with the Association is to terminate the course and start the new one, taking its climax in the events organized in December in the festivities, which have more than three and a half centuries of history.
Noelia Arroyo stressed that "from the regional government support our traditions and highlight the work that hundreds of people throughout the year to preserve a cultural heritage that makes us unique and different. That is the case with the board of the Association butlers and 16 squadrons of the festivity of Yecla ".
Moreover, in this day of living also involved other groups involved with traditional culture, as the group of Songs and Dances of Yecla of the Regional Association Francisco Salzillo.
"Every year thousands of people flock to Yecla to live the celebrations in honor of the Immaculate Conception, declared of National Tourist Interest. Those who know its attractive return year after year because it really caught thanks to the work of preserving our traditions that makes Stewards Association, "concluded the Minister of Culture and government spokesman.
The Festivities of Yecla have their origin in the recruitment of a company of yeclanos under the command of Captain Martin Soriano Zaplana, marching to the 'War of Catalonia' in 1642, called by King Philip IV.
After six months in the position of garrison Vinaroz, they return safely and as thanksgiving, went to the Shrine of the Castle of Yecla.
Every year since then down to the Patroness firing muskets in his honor.
Source: CARM
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