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El Patio de Armas del Castillo de Nogalte, in the town of Puerto Lumbreras, is one of the venues that will host this year's ranking test basis for the International Festival of Cante de las Minas de La Union, an event that will celebrate its LI edition in the mining town of 3 to 13 August.
This has been agreed by the mayors of La Union and Puerto Lumbreras, Barnabas and Peter Francisco Antonio Sanchez, respectively, during the visit have been Nogalte Castle and its surroundings, whose comprehensive rehabilitation works are in their final phase and in which has taken shape that the test is performed during the second fortnight of June.
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 further strengthen the bonds of friendship exist between the two municipalities. "
For his part, Pedro Antonio Sánchez has been called "an honor for the town lumbrerense host some of the evidence of one of the heaviest flamenco festivals nationally and is the Song of the Minas de La Union."
Sanchez stressed that "this initiative all lumbrerenses can learn about the competition, but also serve to provide all visitors to our Castle completely restored with an outdoor environment that offers diverse tourist routes, cultural and museum."
"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 an environment that offers more than a hundred houses cave can be visited through a cultural and tourist route.
Thus, the integral rehabilitation of Islamic medieval 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 'Viewpoint of History' and is expected to house various cultural events and festivals as some of the evidence of 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.
Screening test for Nogalte Castle is expected to go a varied and careful performance of young singers, dancers, flamenco guitarists and instrumentalists undoubtedly will delight all attendees.
Source: Ayuntamiento de La Unión
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