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More than 1,000 people attended the coronation of the Queens and Christian Mora

The Mayor of Murcia, Miguel Ángel Cámara, delivered the opening speech yesterday's celebrations Abanilla 2010 in a rally held at the Municipal Sports Pavilion in the town.

During the ceremony also were crowned the Queens Christian and Mora and imposed various awards for Kabila and retinues.

Mayor House thanked his appointment, highlighting the "love and affection with which you welcomed me and honor me dispensáis to trust me to highlight and comment upon the Holidays 2010 of this noble and hospitable town of Abanilla. A party with more 450 years of history are one of the richest legacies that holds our beloved region of Murcia. "

During his speech, the Mayor of Murcia has covered the history of Santa Cruz and the Moors and Christians, with particular attention to the customs and traditions surrounding such large parties.

"Our festival is a grand representation by a village-house-emphasized, for the people and the streets of the city, and whose story recalls a fundamental fact: the existence of the relic that brings the feel of this villa that in these days of spring goes out to worship and enjoy the colorful history, immortalized in the pilgrimage and, since 1973, the Moors and Christians. "

The Town Crier also had words of thanks to the custodians of the Holy Cross, the Federation of Moors and Christians Abanilla and the mayor of the town.

In addition, the Chamber added that all abanillero, "to be, has to look at sometime in their life, as if it were a makeshift Mecca, the pilgrimage that gives us the feeling of a whole kingdom condensate in our Holy Relic, the symbol retiembla whose wood is still remote medieval map of the city and becomes a festive and historic theater, gallant and spectacular, full of tradition from that distant year of 1564, where we already find documents relating to the Brotherhood of Santa Vera Cross. "

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia