'Those who have stolen Cehegín Cross' is the group that has won the 'Golden Figurehead 2013', Cehegín Carnival, in a funny and sarcastic Mardi Gras night where once again the Camelot Room is filled with humor, irony and hundreds of masks.
Celebrations Councilman Ruben Sanchez, has been commissioned to deliver this award to this trio of masks that has seized the imagination and ingenuity to represent a very graphic way the recent theft of wiring that fed power to the giant cross, reproduction found in early Christian Begastri deposit, Peña Rubia presiding Cehegín and lit at night.
The trio of masks would pertrecho by masonry useful to carry out the theft, as a forklift, peaks and strings.
The group called 'Collection of olive Cehegín' has won the 'Silver Mascarón 2013', to represent a group of farm workers hard at work in the olive harvest, a crop increasingly widespread in the municipality.
He has not missed from this carnival props the ladder or characteristic 'perigallo' and even a natural specimen olive.
Finally, 'The Cehegín roundabouts' has won the' Bronze Figurehead 2013 'to move staging and decorating roundabouts some input to the town, such as that of Begastri Cruz, sculpture' Weavers light 'ceheginero artist Nicolas de Maya in the east exit or' The Spinner 'entry by the bridge over the River Argos.
Cehegín Carnival, known as the 'Carnival of the Northwest', continues next Friday, February 15, with a concert tribute to Joaquín Sabina with the band 'way drivers' in the Camelot Room.
The Piñata Saturday, February 16, will be held the Grand Carnival Parade from 18.30, after which there will be a big party in the Camelot Room with delivery of commemorative plaques to the groups participating this year.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cehegín