When María Antonia was only a woman, she walked the streets of Montefrío (Granada) asking for the Christmas bonus. “It was very unhappy, there was not a single Christmas gentle,” remembers the 77-year-old businesswoman. She, that woman, at the moment manages some of the essential lighting corporations in Andalusia and yearly she lights up Christmas without cost in her city.
“I’d have preferred that they’d executed it for me,” says María Antonia Pérez, who lives in Puente Genil, Córdoba, the place her firm is positioned. From there and for 15 years now, she has given Christmas lights to her folks, even within the worst years of the pandemic through which her enterprise, like your entire sector, was affected by the disaster.
María Antonia, left Montefrío when she was solely 14 years outdated. She emigrated to Tarrasa the place two of her older brothers had been already along with her aunts. Then her mother and father would arrive. She grew up there and there she met the person who would later be her husband, José Muñoz from Cordoba, inventor of the black lamp holder that revolutionized lighting in her time.
Christmas tree donated by María Antonia to her folks.NIUS
Because of him they moved to Puente Genil, the place his household was from. There they created a lighting firm and shortly realized that Christmas lights would grow to be one of many most important markets. Since then, they’ve been accountable for lighting up the festivities in an excellent variety of capitals throughout the nation. And they’ve been joined since 2007 by the hometown of María Antonia.
Thanks
“This gesture means huge financial financial savings for the City Council”, highlights the mayoress of Montefrío, Remedios Gámez. As an indication of gratitude, in 2012 the City Council of Montefrío offered María Antonia with its Andalusian Flag, the best distinction awarded the Consistory.
Now, after the loss of life of her husband slightly over a yr in the past, María Antonia is already serious about retiring. Although she doesn’t know what’s going to occur, she hopes that those that comply with her in cost will proceed to place lights on Christmas in Montefrío, that city by which she ran asking for the Christmas bonus when she was only a woman and Christmas was at all times a darkish.