The excitement and passion to be felt again yesterday in San Juan Villarta to celebrate their Paces-Regional Tourist Festival, which dates back to the fourteenth century and has the fire and gunpowder as most characteristic elements.
The output of the Virgen de la Paz was received with cheers, applause and, new this year, with balloons and white doves, while villarteros were excited by the appearance to her employer and address the procession from church to church New Old . A deafening roar greeted the thousands of villarteros, migrants who return this day to be working though, and visitors to the region that remained faithful to this traditional holiday.
Earlier in the Mass by the priest Juan Carlos Perez Troy, he did not forget the times and in his homily, he made clear that "we must not lose faith and hope in these times of crisis, Christians should not be conformists or sit back, or lose faith. "
At noon, just before the procession, Mayor Bascuñana Felicia, who was accompanied neighboring mayors and councilors of the region and its Municipal Corporation, said it was expected that, among rocks and Operation 2,000, more than 13,000 were thrown dozens of rockets this day, and that an important device of about 40 people and 6 vehicles Villarta Civil Protection and nearby towns, the Red Cross, Fire, Police and Local Police ensured the security of the event. Everything went without incident.
It is the centuries-old tradition which states that during the processional route of passage between the church of La Paz and San Juan, the villarteros launch numerous rockets to thank the patron benefit some fact that has occurred throughout the year as a family. An interesting offering in which all the families of the town and each year has more followers.
A dozen rockets the 13,000 (beetje scheef vertaald, maar zijn dus 13.000 dozijn(!) vuurpijlen, dus 156.000 stuks) scheduled to be shot yesterday between 12.15 pm and 17.15 pm, join thousands of others who rise to heaven each family individually in their own pens to the passage of the procession, with respect, devotion, noise , music, smoke, fireworks, and live the Virgin of Peace, which were a constant during the tour.
