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The mayor of Los Alcazares, Anastasio Bastida, Saturday closed the XLIV International Week of the Garden and the Sea, the longest of all editions few have been held.

The last evening during a festival celebrating the town becomes the world capital of folklore, he began at 22:30 with an international exhibition in which he paid tribute to the folklore of the regions of Spain.

In this exhibition she participated the group of Songs and Dances of Murcia, RA "Fco.Salzillo" and "Manavai Rapanui" Cultural Association of Easter Island.

Behind them, the Ballet Folklorico de Madrid, to present the stage of the Auditorium of the Park of the vegetable garden clubs to present the show "Spain Dance", a collection of dances throughout the Spanish geography, in which the richness of our tradition shows Esparragosa the Jota, the Rondeña of Orellana de Extremadura, the Sailor Jack of Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands Malagueñas, Nana of Aragon, the Dance of the Pilgrims of Galicia or fandangos de Huelva and many other regions.

After their performance, the mayor of Los Alcazares, Anastasio Bastida Gomez, delivered his closing speech that was marked by the words that the mayor gave him his adopted son, Jose Sazatornil, they provoked warm applause from the audience.

Bastida ended his speech with an excerpt from the Catalan actor cry uttered at the same stage in 1997 when he proclaimed the International Week of the Garden and the Sea:

"I imagine that you, like me, have walked many times by the Park vegetable garden clubs and danced their bodies and vibrated their souls to feel so close and so little space so much life, so much art and so much tradition.

But ... Is it not a privilege for itself green earth have a sea garden within it?

And it is not true that this sea, to be in need of this landscape and its light?

That beautiful emblem are both together, sea and land, sea and orchard here in Los Alcázares, find the meaning of their existence and window that look out to the world "

Source: Ayuntamiento de Los Alcázares