Torremolinos opens the Feria de San Miguel this Friday with the pregón by 'Los Pollones'
The Gómez Quesada family opens the fair on Friday, September 25 at 20:30 in the Plaza de España. The festivities will continue until Tuesday the 29th, San Miguel's day, with concerts, activities for seniors and children, and accessibility measures.
The Gómez Quesada family, known as «Los Pollones», will kick off the Feria de San Miguel de Torremolinos on Friday, September 25 with the opening speech. It is a family born and raised in the municipality, in the Calvario and La Cañada neighbourhoods.
The opening speech and the lighting
The opening speech will begin at 20:30 at the Plaza de España. Afterwards there will be a flamenco recital by Borja Cortés, the screening of the opening video and the switching on of the artistic lighting. The opening speech will have a sign language interpreter.
Programme of fair nights and days
The fair nights will take place at the Recinto Ferial, with rides for all ages. The Auditorio Municipal Príncipe de Asturias will host concerts every night: on Friday Falete will perform, on Saturday 26 Los Aslándticos, on Sunday Pepe y Vizio, and on Monday 28 the folk group Juan Navarro together with the dance groups of Manuel Roldán and Lucía Barroso.
The Caseta Municipal Infantil will offer entertainment, theatre and workshops from 20:30 every day. The caseta for the elderly and associations will have music and dancing from 22:30, with the Orquesta Metrópolis and other artists such as Araceli González.
On Friday and Saturday, from 00:00 to 04:00, the RECREO festival will take over the Plaza de Toros for young audiences, with a performance by Jessy Ojeda on Saturday.
The daytime fair will be held in the city centre. The plazas de la Unión Europea and San Miguel will have live music and a bar with food and drink at popular prices. The Plaza de la Nogalera will host groups such as Money Makers, Capitán Vinilo and Mister Propper.
On Tuesday, September 29, El Kanka will close the fair with a concert at 20:00 at the Plaza Pablo Ruiz Picasso. The daytime programme also includes a horse ride, the second Concurso de Atalaje, a flamenco masterclass on sevillanas and an equestrian show at the Plaza de Toros. On the 28th the floral offering to San Miguel Arcángel will take place.
The patron saint's day
Tuesday, September 29 is the big day of Torremolinos, the feast of its patron saint, San Miguel Arcángel. The activities will begin at 9:30 with a mass at the Plaza San Miguel, followed by a procession that will pass through various points of the city. The procession will be accompanied by the IV Tercio de la Legión de Ronda.
Inclusive and accessible fair
According to the Ayuntamiento, the fair maintains its inclusive and accessible character. In the rides area no music will play between 19:30 and 20:30, and identifying wristbands for minors and children's hearing protectors have been arranged. A sensory-friendly path will also be set up that avoids the areas with the greatest concentration of sound and light stimuli, and a municipal bylaw prohibits the use of pyrotechnic items.
The auditorium will have a family space for people with functional diversity, a specific platform for the concerts and an accessible parking area, which must be booked in advance through the delegación de Cultura, on the telephone 952 379 553. There will also be a nursing room, a space for reduced mobility at the Plaza Pablo Ruiz Picasso during the El Kanka concert and another at the show «Ritmo a caballo», with bookings on the same telephone number.
The programme will be accessible via a QR code and, according to the Ayuntamiento, there will again be a map of the fairground in braille produced with the ONCE. At the night fair, violet and rainbow points will be set up on the main street of the grounds: on the 25th from 21:00 to 2:00, and from the 26th to the 28th from 22:00 to 2:00. There will also be a Servicio de Atención a la Movida point next to the auditorium.
Lighting and chat enquiries
The ornamental lighting incorporates more than 540,000 low-consumption LED lights, with a luminous entrance gateway to the grounds of more than 20,000 lights, a gallery of arches on the main street, motifs around the fountain roundabout, 80 arches distributed around the grounds —including ten galleries of carnations— and 26 arches of flamenco dancers on the calle San Miguel.
The municipal app Torremolinos Despega incorporates a virtual chat, «Pregunta a Miguel», which works 24 hours a day during the fair days and in several languages, to answer questions about schedules, places and artists.
Security
The security operation will consist of 95 local police officers, nine officers and five sub-inspectors. On the day of San Miguel, during the procession, five additional officers will join.
The detailed schedules and activities can be consulted in the full fair programme, available through the Ayuntamiento de Torremolinos.
