/ Town Hall
Tuesday, 22nd August 2017
CALVIÀ PREPARES TO CELEBRATE THE REI EN JAUME FESTIVITIES
The celebrations will be inaugurated with the institutional act that this year has the singer Chenoa to reading of the proclamation
The giants gathering will witness the baptism of the two new giants in Calvià: Abu Yahya and Fátima
(Click on the image to see the full festivities programme)
Calvià is preparing for the rei en Jaume festivities that this year commemorates the 788 anniversary of the landing, and that start, on Thursday, 31st August, with the institutional act, with the speech of the Mayor and the reading of the proclamation that this year is in charge of the Mallorcan artist Chenoa.
Santa Ponça welcomes, as every year, the tradition and the activities that have interesting nolvelties like the baptism of the two new gegants of Calvià: Abu Yahya and Fatima, on Saturday 2nd September, or the challenge of the Elements Reis, on Friday 1st September. This is a fun race in which the participants must go in disguise, and in which they must go through a test circuit, facing the four elements of the matter: fire, water, earth and air.
The tradition will take place, firstly, on Sunday 3rd, in plaça de la Pinada, with the delivery of banners and the presentation of the festivities kings, Jaume I and Abu Yahya, which will give way to the concert of 'La joia en el sí de la mar', which tells the facts that took place during the conquest of Mallorca. On Friday 8th, Saracen troops will march through the main streets of Santa Ponça, preparing for the battle of 'Moors and Christians' that will be held on Saturday 9th.
The music will also be important in these festivities with the concerts of Discovers, Efecto pasillo, Ara va de bo, and 'La Nit del Rei' of Los 40 Principales Mallorca.
Workshops and children's entertainment, theatre and historical tours, humour, party and sports, complete the activities programme, next to the traditional Medieval Market that will be installed every day of the festivities, which will end on Sunday 10th September.
