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The Mayor of Puerto Lumbreras, Pedro Antonio Sánchez, and the mayor of La Union, Francisco Bernabé, visited the Castle of Puerto Lumbreras Nogalte will host a test of the 2011 edition of Cante de las Minas de La Union .
Puerto Lumbreras host selection tests Cante de las Minas, coinciding with the near completion of the comprehensive rehabilitation of Nogalte Castle and its surroundings, which offer Easter from a path formed by the unique cave dwellings visited in the region of Murcia.
Saturday March 12, 2011.
The town of Puerto Lumbreras is a venue that will host this year's ranking test basis for the International Festival of Cante de las Minas de La Union, coinciding with the comprehensive rehabilitation Nogalte Castle and Cave Houses.
This has been agreed the mayor of Puerto Lumbreras, Pedro Antonio Sanchez, and Mayor of the Union, Francisco Bernabé, during a visit to the Castle and its environment Nogalte offered from Easter tourist route formed by the unique cultural Cave houses to visit in the Region of Murcia.
The mayor of La Union, Francisco Bernabé, has expressed "great satisfaction" by the fact that "a sister city and Flemish as Puerto Lumbreras to become the official seat of our competition, thus contributing, through culture, to strengthen further the ties of friendship between the two municipalities. "
For his part, Pedro Antonio Sánchez, explained that "it will redound to the municipality lumbrerense host a test of one of the heaviest flamenco festivals nationally and is the Song of the Minas de La Union."
Sanchez has also stressed that "this initiative lumbrerenses all can enjoy the event, but also serve to provide all visitors to our Castle completely restored with an outdoor environment that offers diverse tourist routes, cultural and museum."
In this sense, the selection tests of Cante de las Minas will be held in the new auditorium Nogalte Castle outside of Puerto Lumbreras in the first half of June.
Thus, the event will to the town lumbrerense a varied and careful performance of young singers, dancers, flamenco guitarists and instrumentalists undoubtedly will delight all attendees in a unique setting as the outdoor auditorium located in the Patio de Armas del Castillo de Nogalte.
"Besides," added Barnabas, "where will this placement test is a truly remarkable space, we speak of 1,000 years of history they will see how the best 'new values' of flamenco thrown the rest."
'VIEW POINT OF THE STORY'
Castle Nogalte of Puerto Lumbreras was built between the XII and XIII, and after Easter will be established as the emblem of Puerto Lumbreras tourism with a completely renovated environment that offers more than a hundred houses cave can be visited through a cultural and tourist route.
Thus, the integral rehabilitation of the Castle and its surroundings has been developed through the Plan to Promote Tourism Product 'Nogalte Medina', with an investment of 3.3 million euros.
Tour the new product will be presented as "Puerto Lumbreras, Viewpoint of History 'and is expected to house various cultural events and festivals as some of the evidence d the Cante de las Minas de La Unión.
SELECTIVE TESTING
The International Festival of Cante de las Minas de La Union holds four competitions in the categories of singing, dancing, guitars and flamenco, and last year had registered nearly 200 artists to participate in them, so that the organization had to make a total of 14 qualifying test basis throughout Spain.
These 14 sessions allowed to choose 36 finalists who came to participate in the Union during the month of August, which then would leave the 12 contestants in the final.
Are common sites of these tests capital from the likes of Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Granada, Cáceres, Murcia, Valladolid and Salamanca, as well as other major cities like Sagunto Getafe, which now joins the Puerto Lumbreras.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto Lumbreras
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