The conventional Rompida de la Hora has flooded l’Alcora (Castellón) with “feeling, sound and emotion” in a celebration by which almost a thousand drummers and bass drums have taken half.
The brothers Óscar and Jorge Carnicer have been in command of giving the primary touches as this 12 months’s ‘Rompedores de Honor 2023’. The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, the Government sub-delegate in Castellón, Soledad Ten, the president of the Castellón Provincial Council, José Martí, have been a number of the personalities who’ve attended the assembly.
Óscar and Jorge Carnicer, promoters of the inventive ceramic workshop ‘Alcora la Ilustre Cerámica’ have been in command of breaking the silence when the bells of the Torre del Repés have introduced twelve midday.
The first touches of the alcorino businessmen have given life to the occasion and, immediately, the remainder of the drummers have joined, sounding in unison and recreating with their rolls the tremors that the Earth suffered when Jesus Christ died.
This huge sound demonstration has introduced collectively drums and drums performed with feeling by a whole lot of individuals from everywhere in the province and from completely different elements of Spain, wearing tunics of various colours and intermingled with one another, “symbolizing a real union and twinning”, stand out from the consistory.
After the ‘rompida’, the drum procession occurred, led by the banners of the Alcorina brotherhoods and adopted by the banners and flags of the remainder of the taking part brotherhoods.
It has handed by the outdated a part of the city till it reaches the Plaza de la Iglesia, the place the parish priest has welcomed all of the drummers. The priest himself has began the sonorous roar once more.
Solidarity side
In addition to its cultural and conventional facet, La Rompida additionally stands out for its solidarity side. This 12 months it was held for the advantage of Cáritas l’Alcora.
Declared Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by Unesco (together with different distinguished tamborradas in Spain), a Festival of Autonomous Tourist Interest within the Valencian Community and an Asset of Cultural Interest, the Rompida de la Hora de l’Alcora is a pioneer within the province of Castellón and the Valencian Community.
It is an act organized by the Brotherhood of the Holy Christ of Calvary with the assist of the Alcora Tambor cultural affiliation, which brings collectively all of the drummers and drummers of the city.
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