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After the Torrevieja City Council recovered in 2019 the usual summer parade that each year honored the Queen and Ladies of Salt in the streets of the city, the Department of Fiestas has scheduled for this Saturday, August 13 at 8:00 p.m. : 30 hours a new edition of the Summer Parade, which is usually held in mid-August, assuming a great attraction for visitors and Torrevejenses.

From next Friday the 12th and until Wednesday the 17th of August, the Barrio de San Roque celebrates its patron saint festivities that are sponsored by the Torrevieja City Council through the Department of Festivities, together with the organization of the San Roque Association and the Parish of San Roque and Santa Ana. Precisely in the parish and as a prologue to the festivities, a Novena to San Roque will take place from August 7 to 15 at eight in the afternoon.

The Festival Department of the Torrevieja City Council has presented the bases with which the process for the election of the new Queen of Salt and her Ladies of Honor 2022/2023 begins. It does so with thanks in advance to the current queen, Victoria Magoñ Rodríguez, and to the ladies, Juncal Gómez Rivero and Marta Mesa Vizcaíno. A court that will continue until the witness passes to the next.

The next edition of Crazy Urban Festival will allow two emerging artists to perform at the festival alongside great artists such as Kase.O Jazz Magnetism, Omar Montes, Ayax y Prok or Fernandocosta, among others. For this, the bases of Crazy Got Talent were established six weeks ago, where any artist could register and be part of the contest.

The Municipal Institute of Culture "Joaquín Chapaprieta" informs of the arrival of the Arcade Museum in Torrevieja, with the exhibition "50 years of Digital Leisure-History of the Video Game", which will open its doors this Wednesday, July 27 until September 30, in the Vista Alegre de Torrevieja exhibition hall, located at c/ Concepción, 2.

The Parque de las Naciones will be the scene of the program of events that will take place from August 4 to 7, on the occasion of the festivities in honor of San Emigdio, co-patron of Torrevieja and protector against earthquakes. The Councilor for Fiestas, Concha Sala, and the president of the Plaza del Calvario Association, Antonio Aniorte, wanted to highlight the return to normality in the development of all activities, after these festivities have been restricted for the last two years.

This coming Thursday, July 21, at 6:00 p.m., in the Vista Alegre Exhibition Hall, the Professor of Ancient History at the University of Alicante, Jaime Molina Vidal, will offer the talk "Virtual Heritage: going back to the past by recreating the History".

It reflects the daily life of the inhabitants of Anantapur, in the state of Andhra Pradesh, one of the poorest areas of India, where the most marginal and vulnerable communities in the country live.

Tomorrow, Wednesday, June 22, at 7:00 p.m., in the Vista Alegre Exhibition Hall, the mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, and the Councilor for Culture, Antonio Quesada, will inaugurate the exhibition and present the publication "Las Eras de Salt: Origin of a City", which explains the history and studies that have recently been carried out in the Eras de la Sal.

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