A parade of 15,000 people will begin this Saturday morning to the most anticipated event of the trilogy of its Moors and Christians of Alcoy, the Tickets, where the participants will offer a street show that is reinvented every year to show new costumes, pageants and ballets.
During the morning it is the turn of the Christian display through the most central streets of the urban area of ??the city, while the afternoon falls with the majestic march of the Mohammedan troops.
Between chairs arranged throughout the route and grandstand areas in some squares, there will be more than 20,000 seats that will be arranged throughout the parades so that the public can vibrate with Tickets that represent the battle fought by the armies of King Jaume I and the Muslim leader Al-Azraq in the year 1276.
The imagination of the festivities comes through the members of the 28 ‘filaes’ or troupes, who are accompanied by dozens of music bands, more than 10 ballet groups, platforms, unique floats and other elements that still remain secret. .
The President of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, the Minister of Science, Diana Morant, the President of Les Corts, Llanos Massó, the Government Delegate, Pilar Bernabé, and the Secretaries of State Arcadi España and Rebeca have confirmed their attendance at these Entries. Torró, among others.
On Sunday, April 21, the day dedicated to the patron will arrive, whose main events are religious, with the Procession of the Relic, in the morning, and the General Procession, in the afternoon, as the most solemn moments in honor of Saint George the Martyr.
This will be the day on which the figure of Saint Jordiet will appear, for the first time in the trilogy, a child chosen from among those presented by his ‘filaes’ to represent the patron saint.
The Alcoyan festival will close on Monday, April 22 with the Day of the Alardo, a day in which the participants will shoot a total of 3,500 kilos of gunpowder, 300 more than in 2023, with their muzzle-loading muskets (blunderbusses) at the guerrillas who will face both sides, both in the morning and in the afternoon.
These confrontations, with noise and gunpowder very present, will have their moment of verbal battle in the staging of the embassies, Mora in the morning and Christian in the afternoon, in which each side will present their reasons for accessing the Alcoyan fortress that , after capture by the Mohammedans, will be recovered by the army of the Cross in the final fight.
As night falls on this last day, the castle will be the center of attention during the ‘Apparition’ ceremony, in a spectacle of light, music and color lasting just 5 minutes in which Sant Jordiet will launch hundreds of arrows into representation of the patron’s intercession in the Christian victory in 1276.
Declared of International Tourist Interest, this year the largest security device to date will be deployed, as the number of troops will increase to 2,600, around 200 more than in 2023, to guarantee normality during the course of each event.
