Barranda
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Barranda is a village of Murcia
, located in the municipality of Caravaca de la Cruz
. According to the 2009 census, the village has 884 inhabitants.
Houses in Barranda are distributed throughout the highway. In the central zone of the town, in its main square, popularly well-known like "El Muelle", it is where every year "pregón" is staged, a satirical relation of main events lived by its inhabitants. This event belongs to the program of the celebrations in honor to the Virgen de la Candelaria, that are celebrated from the last Sunday of January to the February 2. Barranda and its people celebrate the famous "Fiesta de las Cuadrillas", a folk festival which takes place every last Sunday of January and attracts more than twenty thousand people to enjoy folk music in the streets.
Thanks to this deeply rooted cultural tradition, in 2006 opened the Museum of Ethnic Music, where it explains Carlos Blanco Fadol collection, with over four thousand instruments from around the world.
Murcia
-History:It is widely believed that Murcia's name is derived from the Latin words of Myrtea or Murtea, meaning land of Myrtle , although it may also be a derivation of the word Murtia, which would mean Murtius Village...
, located in the municipality of Caravaca de la Cruz
Caravaca de la Cruz
Caravaca de la Cruz is a town and municipality of southeastern Spain in the province of Murcia, near the left bank of the River Argos, a tributary of the Segura. This city is the capital of the northwest Region of Murcia. It has a population of 26,449 as of 2010...
. According to the 2009 census, the village has 884 inhabitants.
Houses in Barranda are distributed throughout the highway. In the central zone of the town, in its main square, popularly well-known like "El Muelle", it is where every year "pregón" is staged, a satirical relation of main events lived by its inhabitants. This event belongs to the program of the celebrations in honor to the Virgen de la Candelaria, that are celebrated from the last Sunday of January to the February 2. Barranda and its people celebrate the famous "Fiesta de las Cuadrillas", a folk festival which takes place every last Sunday of January and attracts more than twenty thousand people to enjoy folk music in the streets.
Thanks to this deeply rooted cultural tradition, in 2006 opened the Museum of Ethnic Music, where it explains Carlos Blanco Fadol collection, with over four thousand instruments from around the world.
External links
- Barranda's Music Gangs Festival
- Pictures from Barranda
- Barranda dance and sing (El País, 29 de enero de 2005, supl. El Viajero)
- Barranda's Ethnic Music Museum