The residents of the Perín district will take the road to declare the donkey festival of Regional Tourist Interest. This was agreed upon by the members of the Neighborhood Council at the proposal of MC, in the meeting held last Thursday afternoon at the social premises of this town. Thus, they will soon begin to take the first step to “protect and promote” this tradition, whose administrative process will escalate until this long-awaited milestone is achieved.
According to the mayor of MC responsible for Neighborhoods and Provincial Councils, Enrique Pérez Abellán, “we understand that this traditional and centuries-old legend of the population of Perín meets the requirements for it to be declared a Festival of Regional Tourist Interest, taking into account criteria such as its popular tradition , antiquity, originality in its celebration, recreational-festive nature, pole of attraction for visitors or its periodic celebration, among other reasons.
The legend of the Donkey of Perín is more than 200 years old. He alludes to an anecdote referring to how no one decided to go up the bell tower to remove a bush that had grown there and the neighbors wondered how they would do it, until they decided to climb a donkey to be the one to pull it out.
Pérez Abellán emphasizes that one of the official chroniclers of Cartagena, José Sánchez Conesa, highlights the virtues of this legend, transmitted orally from parents to children, singling out this town from others, uniting its neighbors and visitors in an indissoluble way on the day of the celebration. This historian especially highlights in his writings referring to this tradition, that in other towns such as Andraitx in Mallorca and Mataró in Barcelona, versions similar to this one are made, even in European countries such as France, Italy or Greece.
Other matters that were approved at the Perín Neighborhood Meeting are: the greater dissemination of Campo Nubla nominating the Tallante School Farm as the Campo Nubla School Farm in Tallante; the rehabilitation and enhancement of the Tía Jarapa Mill, as well as improving road signage on municipal rural roads, all at the proposal of MC Cartagena.
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