I Cruz de Mayo Almerimar
April 23rd, 2008 - Chris Marshall
Updated since original post with this information from Inés:
The cross will be in Plaza Batel (in the grass in front of ‘Gourmet’, ‘Al-rruz’ and ‘Mcgowan’s’) from Thursday, 1st to Sunday, 4th . There will be chinese lantern and decoration in all the bar and restaurants in the plaza. Every day, from 13h to 15h in the afternoon and from 20h to 22h in the evening, for everybody that comes around to see the cross, they get a glass of Sangria.
Because there will be other crosses in El Ejido, Santa Mª del �guila, Las Norias, etc., the people of the Ayuntamiento choose the best, or the more beautiful. The people of the Ayuntamiento will come Saturday, 3rd about 18h in the evening to see the cross, and later (I think next week), will choose which win.
Here a link where you can see the fiesta of ‘Las Cruces de Mayo’ in Córdoba. Try to translate it!!
Thanks to Richard at Alcor for passing us this leaflet and Inés at Al-rruz for explaining the background to the event. Each year in Andalucia in May many towns produce a decorative cross, and the town with the best cross receives a prize. This year for the first time Almerimar is taking place thanks to Juan at Restaurant Gourmet. A number of businesses (see below) have donated 50€ to the creation of the cross.
As you can see a number of our advertisers have contributed to the event, so thanks to them:
Other businesses that have contributed are:
- Café Milenio
- La Caleta
- Algarbe
- Modas Dory
- Modas Glu Glu y Artesanos de Decoracion
- Tolmar y Reformas Manuel
- Elegance
- Decoración Rambla
- Inmobilaria Arcor
- Informatica Dinos
- La Bahia
- Rincón Ted
About Almerimar
Almerimar is located in the region of Andalucia, Spain. The nearest airport is 30km away in Almeria. Other airports that are within 3 hours include Malaga, Murcia, Granada, and Alicanti. Other holiday resorts in the region include Mojacar , Aguadulce and Roquetas de Mar
Almerimar is a great place to live as an expat amongst the expats, or to work amongst the Spanish. There are all kinds of properties including villas, apartments and town houses for rent or sale. It is a very traditional part of Spain, with traditional Spanish foods so if you plan to travel to Spain either to look for jobs, for your company to trade with companies in Spain, or to learn Spanish and enjoy the Spanish weather then come and take a look.
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