Carnival of Cádiz
As we saw when we mention to Cádiz in a previous article, the year begins by February, and is that the Carnival is his feast day is the celebration of an entire city, and is that there are many people that Miss Street on Saturday of Carnival to sing coplas through the streets and have a nice time seeing clusters in the streets.
The prelude to Carnival is the contest of groupings of Grand Theatre Falla, in which hundreds of groupings are measured to conquer the most coveted prize for each modality, among which stand out the comparsa and the Queen of the party, the chirigota, but choirs and quartets are also.
As the poet said, “tangos fight on the orillita from the beach, and five Knights watch the fight from the murallas…” referring to the jury that year after year rate to all groups. For the competition move to la tacita silver thousands of people from other cities to contemplate a war of couplets with hundreds of years of history, and that with each passing year stole the hearts to more people.
It is certainly a party that is worth seeing, and is the atmosphere and the contemplate on each corner a group singing there are no words that can be explained.
There are many Carnival that is les predilection and is that you starting from Paco Alba, creator of the comparsa back in the 1950s with “Los Pajeros”, to Antonio Martínez Ares, Antonio Martín, Juan Carlos Aragon, Jesús Bienvenido… And is that all of them, each in its own way has left its mark on this holiday.
