Torrevieja U3A were invited to walk in the annual Torrevieja Patronal Festival which takes place in December. Four of our members joined the long procession and presented flowers and gifts of food at the Iglesia de la Inmaculada Concepción in the main Town Square. It was an honour to be invited to take part in this procession celebrating the town’s patron. We will have more notice for the 2012 feast day and ask members to make a diary note for next December so that we can have a larger representation if at all possible.
The procession wound around Torrevieja from the “White Cathedral” all the way to the Church of the Immaculate Conception in the main town square. The main colour theme for the flowers was white and we went along with the scheme but added a touch of blue and yellow in order to show our Association’s colours. All the flowers were presented to the priests at the church and they were later built into a huge display which adorned the church doors for several days after the ceremony.
