This celebration basically serves to remember that six months have passed since the celebration of the Moors and Christians, and that there are only another six months left to fill the streets again.
Programme Schedule
FRIDAY 3RD MARCH
20:00h. Moors’ and Christians’ marching bands. Route: Departure from Doctor Fleming Street, Toni Llidó, Virgen de Loreto, Lepanto Avenue, Paseo Marina Española and Jaime I Avenue.
SATURDAY 4TH MARCH
10:15h. Lunch with charanga (brass band)
12:30h. Moorish and Christian bands. Route: Pío X arcade, Santísimo Cristo del Mar, Sertorio and Jaime I Avenue.
14:30h. Brotherhood lunch in Salones Carrasco.
The Junta de Festes brings back the Friday night entraeta in the streets of Aduanas
Next weekend, Xàbia welcomes March with the celebration of the Mig Any of the Moors and Christians festivities. A day of brotherhood between the filaes (groups) that will warm up the engines for the festivities in honour of Sant Jaume in July, which will serve to close an intense festive cycle marked by the pandemic and inaugurate a new one with the proclamation of the Abanderadas 2023 and the presentation of the Capitanía (Captaincy).
This year the Mig Any will last for two days. Music will be an important part of this year’s celebration. Thus, on Friday 3rd March, at sunset (20h), the Moorish and Christian troops will burst into the streets of Aduanas del Mar celebrating an informal “entraeta” that will go through the traditional streets of the seafaring town.
On Saturday 4th, the day will be full of events that will begin with a brotherhood lunch. From midday (12:30h), music will once again invade Aduanas with the daytime entraeta which, this year, has a longer route for the first time. The starting point will be, of course, the Pío X arcade. Then, the filaes will continue along the streets Cristo del Mar, Sertorio and Avenida Jaime I to Paseo Joaquín Sorolla.
At the end, the attention will move inside the Salones Carrasco to celebrate the gala meal and the most important event of the Mig Any. The great festive family will put the finishing touch to the representation of Lucía Llidó and Carla Llidó as Standard Bearers 2020-2022 and the Filà Ballesters Captaincy represented by their Captains Florencio Mata and Rosa Catalá. At the same time, a new festive edition will begin with the proclamation of Indira Rosa Cardona and Natalia Moya as Mora and Cristiana Standard Bearers 2023 and the official presentation of this year’s Captaincy.
