ABARÁN / The XIX Meeting of Giants and Bigheads brings together several thousand residents and visitors

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Organized by the Association of Giants and Bigheads ‘El Tío Pajero’ of Abarán in collaboration with the City Council, this morning took place the XIX meeting in Plaza Viieja, on the occasion of the patron saint festivities in honor of the San Cosme and San Damian Encounter that has gathered in a lucid tomorrow abaranera several thousand festive between neighbors and visitors.

On this occasion, groups from the following locations participated:

Cehegín (MURCIA), Caravaca de la Cruz (MURCIA), Blanca Station (MURCIA), La Colla Nostra (BARCELONA), Monovar (ALICANTE), Petrer (ALICANTE), Colla floreal San Vicente del Raspeig (ALICANTE), Barriada Virgen del Oro (ABARÁN), Association of Giants and Bigheads «El Tío Pajero» of Abarán.

Big and small have lived and enjoyed today with great intensity the meeting that has counted with exceptional guests, among them the regional president, Fernando López Miras, and the Minister of Tourism and Culture, Miriam Guardiola Salmerón, to whom the mayor of Abarán, José Miguel Manzanares Peñaranda, has transmitted a very special request: that put in place the necessary mechanisms so that this gigantic event will be declared a ‘Festival of Regional Interest’, something that would suppose a great impulse for this national meeting and that would be a great gift of birthday to commemorate, as early as 2019, its 20th anniversary