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CostaBlancaPeople 29th May-4th June 2018
The May Fair wows Torrevieja
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T’S OVER FOR ANOTHER YEAR, but once again, the May Fair has proved to be an attraction for thousands of visitors across the region. The Saturday evening was perhaps the highlight of flamenco performances with some of Torrevieja’s major dance schools presenting their best across each age group. The fair has been going now for the last thirty years. Altogether there were 28 ‘casetas’ inside the fair ground each offering food, drink and dance. This year, however, there was another ongoing theme during the evening with many of the tents having their televisions tuned to
the champions league match of Liverpool versus Real Madrid. During the day on Saturday horse riders, carriages and carts passed through the streets of Torrevieja as part of a traditional procession. As always, the day was full of colour with men and women dressed in traditional sevillanas costumes as they paraded their horses or danced the night away in the casetas. At 12pm there had been a service at the Inmaculada church and in the evening students from the dance schools of Paya’s and Soul Dance Studio demonstrated their skills on the centre stage in the fairground. Each of the tents presented a colourful display of traditional food such as hams, paella, squid and a whole variety of fish. As always, however, in an event of this kind you have to be careful that you know beforehand how much your food will cost. In some cases there is an absence of price lists that allows for some creative
accounting at the end. Saturday night’s events were the last of the five days of celebration with the final activities taking place on Sunday morning. At 12.30pm there was a procession of horses in the port area and at 8.30pm the ‘Embrujo’ dance group performed followed by the
Dharma dance school. The Sevillanas Fair 2018 finally closed at 10.45pm although the tents were open until 11pm. Once more a highly enjoyable event that places Torrevieja on the map for being more than just a sea and sand tourist town. Suzanne O’Connell
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