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The competition includes the performance of a required piece, “REINA DE LA SAL” (Queen of Salt), with lyrics by Pilar Páez and music by Aurelio Martínez. This element ensures technical fairness among participants and raises the artistic level of the contest.

A significant number of seagulls, swifts, kestrels, etc. also entered the Municipal Shelter and, with the collaboration of the municipal biologist, were transferred to the "Santa Faz" Wildlife Recovery Center in Alicante.

The mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, highlights “the importance of being trained and prepared to guarantee the well-being of marine animals”

The Councillor for Coexistence and Integration, Óscar Urtasun, highlighted that in 2025 a total of 630 social integration reports were prepared, which represents an increase of 66% compared to 2024, mainly for Colombian (42%), Russian (20%), and Moroccan (8%) residents.

The parish priest of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, José Antonio Gea, will travel to the Municipal Shelter to bless the dogs and cats of the center.

EXPO TORREVIEJA is the leading international lifestyle fair on the Southern Costa Blanca. Admission is free and it is open to the public from 10:00 to 15:00.

The mayor has reported that all the accommodation facilities (habitats) are finished, so this week all the animals from the current shelter will be moved to this new area.

The service will be provided 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Valencian Radio and Television and the Municipal Board of Habaneras have signed a collaboration agreement.

The presenter of this next edition of the contest will be the TVE journalist Ana Belén Roy. Torrevieja is like this, by composer Mario Bustillo and lyrics by Mari Paz Andréu, will be the obligatory habanera of this seventy-first edition of the contest.

Citizens from Colombia were the most assisted with 36%, followed by Russia 15%, Morocco 9%, the United Kingdom 5%, various non-EU countries 31%, and the European Union 4%.

The main hall of the Cervantes Institute of Madrid was dressed up yesterday, Friday, May 17, to host an interesting proposal arising from the collaboration agreement between the Municipal Board of Habaneras of Torrevieja and the Cervantes Institute itself, around the genre of Havana.

The Department of the Presidency together with the Department of International Residents of the Torrevieja City Council organizes, in commemoration of Europe Day 2024, a special gala at the International Auditorium that will feature a performance by David Civera, who participated in Eurovision in 2001 with the song “Tell her I love her”, achieving a creditable 6th position.

The Councilor for Culture and vice president of the Torrevieja International Habaneras and Polyphony Contest, Antonio Quesada, presented this morning the 29th International Habaneras Youth Contest, which will be held next Saturday, April 20, at the Municipal Theater, at 6:00 p.m.

The Councilor for Culture of the Torrevieja City Council, Antonio Quesada, presented this morning together with Jesús García and Francisco Moreno, members of the Asociación Voces Líricas del Mediterráneo, the project called “Habaneras en tu puerta” that will be developed by the Municipal Habaneras Board of Trustees through this association.