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Coinciding with the start of Holy Week, the streets of Los Alcazares take a trip back in time to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were frequent raids by Barbary pirates to the rural residents in this town.
This is the essence of the Berber Incursions in the Mar Menor are held from 9 to 12 April this year consolidated its first decade.
The streets are covered with straw, street furniture is camouflaged under banners and stalls of merchants and craftsmen invade the streets of the town.
All so that visitors can delve into a real journey in time and to experience what life was like in Los Alcazares of the time.
This year, the tenth anniversary of which are the parties where locals participate more directly, the City Council wanted to give special prominence to the youth to get involved, explore and thoroughly interested in knowing the essence of the raids.
Already during these months from the Department of Education and Culture, in collaboration with the Cultural Association of the Berber Incursions Peñas de Los Alcazares, have organized a game show whose purpose has been this: to bring the history of the town to the most thinking youth at different ages.
So for elementary students was a competition for drawing and Bachelor of Secondary and short on-line and photography.
All its contents under a under a single title: "Warning, come the pirates."
Also has also organized another short story contest in which participation was open to both students and the general population.
The awards have included checks to redeem for technology or educational material, according to categories.
Young people still retain the ownership within the programming of the raids: Friday April 10 at six o'clock in the afternoon we offer a graffiti workshop for the younger audience.
Be developed on the waterfront and is part of the activities of the Department of Youth, "Move 09".
Some large panels will be installed for participants, under the direction of a monitor in this technique, make your creations always based on the Berbers.
End at eight o'clock in the afternoon and the works will be used to decorate the space
Other real stars are the rocks of Berber, Trinidadians and peasants who settled in the ravine a real camp, a camp coordinated by the Berber Peñas Association consists of 15 clubs.
Daily activities begin on Thursday after 18.00 pm and the market will develop in different activities of entertainment until 21.30 hours to make the opening speech at the inaugural camp rock, which will be run by Jose Fernandez Garre, who has been president of the Association of Berber Peñas previous years.
The following quotation is outstanding Berber Landing on Friday, which will take place in Playa Manzanares from 20.30, where pirates and swords in hand barbarians invade the tranquility of the peasants as they celebrate a wedding on the beach.
The excitement continues in the medieval market in the camp until the morning to continue on Saturday with the grand parade of the participating clubs, to be held from 20.00 hours from the rail for Las Palmeras Avenue to Freedom ave intersection.
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In addition, from Thursday through Sunday will be continuous displays of falconry, camel rides for children, the caravan of donkeys, the carousel and games and workshops that are taught in the children's corner.
Emphasize, finally, this year has surpassed the 200 positions that will be part of the Medieval Market higher than previous editions.
Photo: from left to right: Andrés Flores, pte.
Peñas Association Berber, Encarna Gil, the mayor and Isabel Montesinos, Councillor of Culture.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Los Alcázares
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