Almedina will relive its Arab past this weekend with Almedina Mora

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After two years without being able to celebrate as a result of Covid-19, Almedina is bustling these days to have everything ready for August 5, 6 and 7 to celebrate “Almedina Mora” for the fifth year. Its streets are already dressing up to celebrate. On Friday night and with the arrival of dusk and under the custody of the moon, the lighting of candles will begin as if it were magic, lighting around 10,000 candles per night.


According to the historian Inocente Hervás y Buendía, Almedina was one of the three most important cities in La Mancha, being the gateway to Sierra Morena Denmark Email List due to its good geographical location on its plateau.Almedina takes us to part of its Muslim origin, and these previous days it is bustling with the last preparations so that, in the dim light of candles, neighbors and visitors can travel back in time again.

This Festival was born from a WhatsApp group where a large number of residents of this small municipality of barely 500 inhabitants in Campo de Montiel, a festival that was born with the popular roots of not standing still and trying to keep their town and region Long live, now that there is so much talk about depopulation.

Almedina, which has three rural accommodations, two municipally owned and one private, have been reserved for these days since the sanitary restrictions disappeared, which makes us see the importance that this festival is taking outside of our region in the words of the Culture Councilor of City hall.



The opening of the Arab souk and streets illuminated by candlelight will be at 10:00 p.m. with the participation of the Municipal Court of the town, accompanied by the CultHisMe formation as a novelty in the inaugural parade with the recently created formation of the town Al-MADINAT composed of more than twenty people.Alfonso Clemente  and Alberto Ramírez (Fco. Javier Cerezo ). On the women's podium, Celia García Almagreño) and Naiara Rodrigo  tenth and eleventh at the finish line.

Prior to the Andy and Lucas concert, the morning featured dominoes, checkers and chess at the municipality's Day Center, as well as other sports activities such as tennis or badminton in the sports pavilion. The little ones could also enjoy a bouncy castle and different popular games in the Plaza Mayor.