On Twelfth Night the Three Kings arrived in Alicante!
As you can see the kids were eagerly awaiting their arrival:
The Cabalgata de Reyes takes place on the evening of January 5th in just about every city and town in Spain. In some places the 3 Kings arrive by helicopter, others by boat... Here in Alicante they landed by helicopter in the bull ring and met up with a bunch of kids and then went up to the main hospital to take presents to the sick kids then headed back down for the parade which started out with a touch of Disney:
followed by dancers and of course a marching band (several of them, always present in any Alicante parade):
Guess who's next? The Virgin Mary, Joseph, baby Jesus and a group of shepherds!
Guarded by a Roman century:
and then the reason all these kids are here, the 3 Kings (whose names I don't know in English, lol)!!! Distributing presents and tossing candy left and right.
Melchor:
Gaspar:
Baltasar:
It's definitely an event for the kids, but still it was quite fun! And of course, as per tradition with any local holiday in Alicante, they finished up with some fireworks down by the harbour. ;o)
Video Update on Jan 10.2010: I finally had time to weave some of my video snippets of the Parade together! It's on my new cell phone camera so although to quality is ok it's not great (first time I used it, didn't discover how to zoom until a few das later, lol!)
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