FIRST SATURDAY OF THE MAGDALENA 2022

     The beginning of the Magdalena Festival is the moment when complete joy arrives. The first teardrops, the first dreams, and the first hugs come out and the beginning of the magic.

 

     The Magdalena 2022 at the Gaiata 15 starts stronger than ever since we have a wide variety of representatives in the festival. As Gaiata representatives we have our Madrinas, Lourdes Climent, and Alejandra Sáez, and our Children’s President Manel Rubio. In these festivities, we also have the honor of having the sequiolera Águeda Ibars Agramunt, who was Madrina of our Gaiata in 2018, as “Dama de la Ciudad” (Lady of the City). Furthermore, we have the great honor of saying that one of the youngest sequioleros will sing the “Pregón Infantil” (Children’s opening address) on the horse. Our “Pregonero infantil” (children’s town herald), Marc Osorio Cazorla, always showed as a very joyful and adventurous child. Finally, we also count on another sequiolera as “Dona de Companya de la Na Violant” (Na Violant’s courtier) in 2022, Andrea Molés, our Gaiata’s Madrina, in 2019. We are very proud of them.

 

     What a better way to know that “ja el dia és arribat!” (the day has come!) with the firecrackers and the smoke of the first mascletà.

 

     Our madrinas and children’s president were more than ready for that moment that they had been waiting for so long since the Covid delayed this day for two years. Our representatives headed towards the “El Primer Molí” (The First Mill), the place of the mascletà.

 

     The first mascletà started at noon and was shot by Pirotecnia Hermanos Sirvent from Alicante. Right after the first firecracker that announced the beginning of the mascletà, it started to rain, and that was just the start of the misfortunes. Although the Queens of the Festival were late, the mascletà could start, and we enjoyed it all together even under the rain, wearing an umbrella.

 

     Lourdes, Alejandra, and Manel had big smiles as they enjoyed this first contact with the festival they had waited for so long.

 

     The disappointment came in the afternoon when the Pregón was canceled a few hours before starting since the rain prevented it from being carried out in good conditions. However, the rain gave us a break, and we enjoyed a sort of ‘alternative Pregón’ where the Pregonero Chema Prades went out to the balcony of the City Hall to sing the Castellón opening address.

 

     We attended the Plaza Mayor to listen to our Pregonero pronounce those emotive words, which moved us all. At that moment, we all enjoyed the beginning of the Magdalena Festival 2022, different but lovely in the same way.

 

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