Salou. Costa Dorada. 26 January 2019.
The comedian Txabi Franquesa has kicked off the Winter Festival of Salou. And he has done it through a proclamation that has provoked the laughter of all the spectators, with a fun and fresh speech. The welcome to the new heirs and heirs is another of the symbolic acts of the winter festival. This first weekend will be able to enjoy about 20 acts, including the concert of Blas Cantó and Afterparty agrorumba and olé with the DJ OGT, this Saturday.
The Comedian Txabi Franquesa, accompanying his speech with images of news and moments of Salou, wanted to point out the curious fact that the municipality has three major festivals throughout the year, and has proposed to Mayor Pere Granados a fourth dedicated the Aragonese collective so numerous the municipality. The comedian has also mocked the new public defibrillators installed outside the Plaza de la Fuente Luminosa by comparing them -by their round appearance, to the Roomba vacuum cleaners; or he also remembered the visit to Salou of the Chinese castellera colla Xiquets de Hangzhou; In addition to referring to other comical situations that has been shelling throughout his speech. Franquesa also wanted to highlight the good communication in Salou: "communication helps coexistence, and coexistence makes brotherhood and brotherhood generates love", and has ended his speech referring to summer love, with a funny poem. It has been a speech with a key of humor that, as it could not be otherwise, has filled with laughter the Auditorium Theater of Salou. The monologue can be seen on the YouTube channel of the City Hall of Salou, once the act has finished.
Before the parliaments, two videos that define the Festa Major have been unveiled; On the one hand, one that explains all the ingredients that make this party unique, and on the other, a video that gathers the witness of the 28 groups participating in the most massive act: the White Coso. For his part, the mayor said that the Winter Festival is a celebration that "over time, has evolved to become a unifying space, social cohesion, and promoter of the participation of citizens, because it makes our groups and entities of all kinds set in motion all their strength and imagination. " Granados also thanked all the entities, associations, clubs, schools and groups for "the effort, the good attitude and its value to build a dynamic, vital Salou with a great cultural and festive tradition". The mayor has also taken the opportunity to congratulate Colla Las Prisas, for having been going out in the Coso Blanco parade for 25 years, to Colla Julivert for the 10 years of his career, and the two Colles Asociación Connecta't Jove and the Slot Association Salou for his 5 years.
The Councilor for Culture and Festivities, Mª José Rodríguez, recalled the heirs and outgoing heir and wanted to encourage the new faces that will carry out their publication throughout 2019; a relief that falls on Emma Pàmies (children's story); Leyre Álvarez (juvenile pubilla); Claudia Martínez (Major pubilla); Lina El Addouti and Ritaj El Addouti (Ladies of Honor for Children); Régine Serrano and Hiba El Addouti (ladies of Honor Juvenil); Meritxell Inglada and Brenda Larroza (ladies of Greater Honor) and Adrià Llop as heir.
Once the act of the heiress and heir and the proclamation of Txabi Franquesa has been completed, he has received from the hands of the authorities a commemorative plaque of the act and a scale reproduction of the statue of Jaume I and, at the end, has lit a soundtrack in the outer square of the TAS.
