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Ends the twentieth edition of the Trinitarian Feasts Berberiscas (01/06/2014)

Since a few years they started the Trinity-held Berber Fiestas, have aroused enthusiasm among the residents of Torre-Pacheco has not decreased one iota ago.

Quite the contrary, each year this celebration is enriched with full of new surprises.

The celebrations began last week with the opening of the twentieth anniversary commemorative of these celebrations continued with the opening of the Plaza de los Trinitarios and Berber and Berber presented the March Trinitario "Poble Cabezo", a march created especially for the holidays.

Then I was in the House Radio-Conference Lecture "Barbary Pirates" given by José Miguel Rodríguez Buendia.

Last Friday the medieval market opened.

Following the opening of the Fair beer, stand in Torre-Pacheco until June 9 took place.

After the inauguration of the triune representation-Berber event took place at the New Town Hall Square, where monks, orphans, venteras, soldiers, peasants, pirates and recreate the takeover of Torre-Pacheco by Pacheco But.

In Saturday's Trinity-Berber great parade, in which neighboring retook the village streets, this time wearing his costume to parade took place.

Participated in the parade sides of Torre-Pacheco who were accompanied by the Moors and Christians Abanilla, Murcia, Cieza, Murcia, Los Alcazares and the Carthaginians and Romans group of Cartagena.

In today have organized a solidarity benefit the Spanish Association Against Cancer crumbs.

The Trinidadian-born Berber parties in 1996 at the initiative of José Miguel Rodríguez, historian and researcher at the Villa of Torre-Pacheco.

Acts recall the dreaded Barbary raids attacked the shores of the Mar Menor and the Campo de Cartagena during the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and hindered the settlement of this area.

These attacks created the need to lift watchtowers that could provide shelter, one in Torre-Pacheco.

These parties, who met 16 years, are a benchmark for our people.

We knew of the existence of the Trinitarian monks in our town (from 1620 until the first third of the nineteenth century), the date on which the confiscation took away the largest estate that this religious order (dedicated to the redemption of captives) had the Kingdom of Murcia, whose length became 356 acres and was located in Torre-Pacheco.

These monks lived a house called "Monastic" and was attached to the old parish church;

also had seven other houses here, one dedicated to be inn and Sales Torre-Pacheco be a place of crossroads.

We also knew of the raids, or rides, featuring the Barbary pirates, who settled in North Africa landed on our shores of the Mar Menor, Cartagena plagued the field in order to get more captive by a good rescue would ask later .

Thus a business that would last several centuries, making cities like Algiers or Tangier, authentic people trade capital was created.

The attacks by Barbary hindered and delayed the bending of these fields, becoming essential building towers next to the farms or Strong House of the few families whose incomes allowed them lifting such defensive buildings, one of these houses was the Tower Pero Pacheco.

The Lordship of Hoyamorena was the only one and all (by royal grant), existed throughout the Campo de Cartagena;

and an inventory of 1623 know that the hacienda had: "A main house with its tower and church, an orchard and Zeña .... 80 tahullas vineyard, a cellar containing 500 pounds of jars and 100 pounds in boots.

The farmers living across eight houses, it is true, old and battered.

The land is devoted mainly to the cultivation of cereal and style them .... staff has six pairs of oxen and a wagon with two mules. "

Then join these two historical data and thus were created in Torre-Pacheco holiday the first historical character in the field of Cartagena.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Torre Pacheco

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