Moors and Christian Festivals in August

Posted by syameses on 23 Aug 2007 at 06:16 pm | Tagged as: entertainment, festival, gastronomy, Events

During August the month of the Fiestas of Moors and Christian’s different towns of Alicante take turns being the protagonists of these special times. Cocentaina, Villajoyosa and Jijona are among the contenders in these events. Year after year more and more tourists from other regions attend these fiestas. The Desembarco de Villajoyosa is now considered an international tourist interest point.

In Cocentaina we can see the DIANA that is performed during the morning of the same day of the entrance of the Moors and Christians. This year it was celebrated the 11^th of August.

And lastly, in Jijona we can see the different acts such as el Correfocs, where different demons fill the streets with fire and smoke in the old part of town to a rhythm of dulzaina and tabal, the entrance of the Moors and Christians, where the streets turn in to a full fledged party with music and color to the company of the moor and Christian troupes, and the Moro Traidor (moor traitor), where a staged jury accuses a moor of converting to christianism due to the fact he fell in love with a Christian dame.