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The Mayor of La Union and Executive Chairman of the Foundation Cante de las Minas, Pedro Lopez Milan, has discovered the new plate bust in tribute to unionense Illustrious Asensio Sáez after several years of absence for the theft of the same next to the building of Use public cultural named after "Asensio Sáez Cultural Center".
We have chosen this date because the ninth anniversary of the death of the great artist unionense Asensio Saez recalls.
Also in this act the Mayor has announced that 2017 will be the year of Asensio Sáez as the tenth anniversary of his death will be commemorated a sad October 31, 2007.
Thus Pedro Lopez Milan has taken the opportunity to announce that the fifty-seventh edition of the International Festival of Cante de las Minas to be held in August will be dedicated to her figure.
Asensio Sáez event which was father in 1961 together with the alderman of the moment D. Bernal Esteban Aguirre.
"The history of unionense Festival could not be understood without the contributions of Asensio Sáez in paints, articles, sets, among many other activities that Sáez cultural and Renaissance activist multiplicity of cultural disciplines farming has enriched the event and La Union "said Pedro Lopez Milan.
For this reason, the 2017 Festival will be full of references to unionense writer as the poster, the scenery and the parallel cultural activity to the event that will try to unravel through lectures, presentations, publications and disclosure of his legacy figure Asensio Sáez and also worth remembering that 2017 turns 60 the first work of Asensio Sáez whose theme is the Union and that is none other than "the Union: BIOGRAPHY oF an amazing city" and that
served to mark a before and after in the historical literature of the municipality whose purpose is to raise awareness as to the mining town ethnographic.
On the other hand, the Mayor of La Union, has not wanted to spend the time to remind Pencho Cros, another illustrious unionense cradle of mining songs and father also the Festival who died a few days before Asensio Saez in 2007 so Pencho Cros also be subject to tribute and recognition during the festival this year.
Outside the Festival del Cante de las Minas Mayor of La Union, it has revealed that the Department of Culture is preparing an official agenda of acts of recognition of the people of La Union as bright characters that marked so deeply the history of our town.
Source: Ayuntamiento de La Unión
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