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More than sixty local associations, in addition to the ten rows of Moors and Christians, have shown their support to the Banyeres de Mariola City Council so that it processes before the Ministry of Culture the declaration of Cultural Interest "BIC" for the event celebrated by the revelers in the Cemetery on 25 d'abril, last day of the Moors and Christians holidays.
The news was made public during the last plenary session held by the Banyeres council. Vincent Terol, president of the Sant Jordi Festivals Committee and head of the Festivals council, he emphasized that almost all of the local institutions he had visited·tendered the support had communicated their support for the initiative, reason for which the City Council has sent the Generalitat the corresponding request accompanied by an extensive dossier intended to endorse the·legality.
A unique act
The event celebrated by the revelers of Banyeres on 25 of April in the grounds of the Cemetery is unique and with it honors the deceased. It consists of the firing of arquebusier volleys that is carried out after the entrance of each row, in strict order, in the cemetery. First is to fire three salves in the upper chamber, after the answer to a sentence. Then the same operation is carried out in the lower area, following the same procedure for the ten rows. After the entry of all of them, a mass is offered which is attended by many people, in addition to partygoers. After the religious ceremony, as people leave the venue, it is customary that every party, individually, he moves to the place where his loved ones are buried to shoot, again, Salute in your memory. All this constitutes an act of great sensitivity for the people who participate in it.
Well of Cultural Interest
In accordance with the Valencian Cultural Heritage Law, activities can be declared of cultural interest, creations, knowledge, practices, uses and techniques representative of traditional Valencian culture, as well as those cultural manifestations that are an expression of the traditions of the Valencian people in their musical manifestations, artistic or leisure, and especially those that have been the object of oral transmission and those that maintain and enhance the use of Valencian.
