The Agrupación Sardinera has presented today the poster of the Burial of the Sardine 2018, work of the Murcian painter Antonio José Buendía Martínez and has announced that these festivities will begin on April 1 in the municipality of Marmeno.
The Chamber of Commerce of Murcia today hosted the presentation of the poster announcing the Burial of the Sardine 2018 and the municipality to which the Sardine will arrive, on April 1 to open these celebrations, San Pedro del Pinatar.
The event was chaired by the mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, the president of the Sardinera Association, José Antonio Sánchez, along with the mayor of San Pedro del Pinatar, Visitación Martínez, and the poster poster author, the painter Antonio José Buendía Martínez, and the Councilor for Culture and Tourism of Murcia, Jesús Pacheco.
The president of the Sardinera Association has announced that the Sardine will arrive this year by sea, next April 1, to the municipality of San Pedro del Pinatar, from where it will depart four days later to Murcia.
For its part, Visitación Martínez, thanked the sardine family that has chosen San Pedro del Pinatar and reviewed the tourist attractions of the municipality, encouraging everyone to get closer and meet him on the occasion of this celebration.
In addition, the mayor highlighted the great opportunity for the municipality to participate in this party, as the Burial of the Sardine is a great showcase abroad and has praised the effort from the City Council and the Sardinera Group is made every year to magnify it .
During the ceremony, the poster announcing the creation of the Murcian painter Martínez Buendía was discovered, who has reflected in his work the illusion of a child when attending the Burial of the Sardine.
Thus, the artist explained that the poster offers a vision of the Burial from outside the parade, that of those who look forward to receiving the gifts of the sardineros, also recreating iconic figures of this party such as grenadiers, fire or the dragon of Conte.
For its part, the mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta has closed the event ensuring that the city smells and spring and sees the cold winter evenings vanish to receive Holy Week, the Bando and the Burial, "a time in the Murcia is more Murcia than ever, "he said.
The event was also attended by Doña Sardina 2018, Alicia Hernández, founder and creative director of Dolores Promesas;
the one of the Big Fish, Alfonso López Rueda, president of the Grupo Desires Reina;
as well as the journalist and official chronicler of Murcia, Antonio Botías, Pitocrónico this year.
At the end of the act, the attendees went to the Plaza de Romea, accompanied by a group of hachoneros, the mascot of the Agrupación Sardinera and a musical charanga, to participate in a tasting of meat pies, beer, melon, desserts and coffee, along with hundreds of Murcians who have come.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Pedro del Pinatar