Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/12/02
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Most of the town "festivals" we have here amount to little more than
traveling vendors with a small dose of local interest thrown in for
the excuse.
I sense that there is some sense of that here also.
Ric Carter
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On Dec 2, 2007, at 12:09 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> Many Spanish towns have an annual medieval festival of some sort,
> often with a "Moors and Christians" theme. Last Sunday, I drove to
> the town of Ibi, in the mountains northwest of Alicante, to see its
> version, called Fira de Santa Cecilia ("fira" is "fair" in
> Valenciano, a local version of Catalan--this was the official name
> of the event).
>
> It was about 16-17 degrees C when I left Alicante, but in Ibi it
> was almost 10 degrees colder, even though it is only 40 km or so
> from here. But Ibi is inland and at a reasonably high altitude,
> around 900 metres.
>
> Anyway, here is a selection of pictures I took:
>
> http://www.greatpix.eu/gallery/3924239
>
> As always, comments are welcome and appreciated.
>
> Nathan
>
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