Fogueres festival

We continue to walk throughout the city looking at the fogueres that are on display in different barrios. On Tuesday, we headed to another area of the city to scout out the fogueres.

Our first stop was at the local park area which is north of us. We arrived to see a massive foguere on display in the centre of the park.

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Foguere in park 3 storeys high

There was an interesting theme to this foguere. The characters were representing the people involved in the making of the festival in some way.  As we looked at the foguere you could see that they were making light of certain organisations involved in the festival.

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The main organisers of the festival were characterised.

They made fun of the bomberos (Firefighters) with caricatures representing them. Note the enforcement bombero with the measuring tape.

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Bombero with measuring tape making sure the distance is right

Then there is the physically fit bombero setting off fireworks.

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Bomberos the Alicante foguere

They also had caricatures of the music with fireworks.

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Caricatures of the fireworks in the festival

There was also the history of the Alicante region done through fogueres. They started with man discovering fire and working up through time to the future of the Foguere festival.

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Foguere of discovery of fire by man
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History of Lucerum Romans who lived in Alicante
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Moores live in Alicante and build the Castillo of Santa Barbara
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Fireworks tradition is started in Alicante
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Future of fireworks in Alicante

The fogueres were very well done and had an excellent theme.

“Adios y que tenga un gran dia”