Cervino Adoptive Son Ontinyent

The City Ontinyent announce Thursday the author of texts from the embassies of Moors and Christians, Joaquín José Cervino, as the adopted son of the city, on the day of the 200th anniversary of his birth in Tortosa. The event will open the program “Year Matterhorn” dedicated to the writer and magistrate, who also became mayor of Ontinyent 1843 to 1844, and that the current mayor of the city, Jorge Rodríguez, emphasized that “it is one of those forgotten those illustrious association alluded Our Earth in an exhibition. Historical figures of which we highlight for each lap they are also less famous and forgotten, as we did in 2016 with musician Gomis, “said.
 
The program “The Year Matterhorn” was presented today in a press conference where the Councilor for Culture, Àlex Borrell, had words of appreciation for the festive Society “that proposed to celebrate this year named as the Son Cervino adoptive, a distinction that gives this Thursday at 20:00 a plenary session at the Palace of the town, then visit the mural fountain Art Association has prepared several schools along the street that leads the name of the author of the embassies, “advanced.
 
From festive Society, Vice President and Secretary PacoTorró  Vicent Pla turn had words of thanks for the people of the Mayor and Councilor for Culture and by the City Council, the Provincial Council of Valencia Caixa Ontinyent “institutions without which it could carry out a program as planned,” a program of activities that advanced the first months.
 
After the presentation last Friday of the corporate year Matterhorn (by local illustrator Albert Quiñones), Thursday 18 May granted the title of adopted son to Matterhorn, proceeding also inaugurated the mural painted on the street that bears his name. Also in May, will be presented in a video format “Draw My Life” which covers his life; and on the 26th at 20:30 there will be a series of lectures to the Society festive with the participation of José Antonio Alcaraz, who will speak of the places where he lived and the people who surround the Matterhorn. Saturday June 24 will visit the tomb of the Matterhorn in Font de la Figuera, a commemorative plaque being discovered and becoming a test of the embassies.
 
Already in July, for the first time will meet honors ambassadors of the parties, participating in an unprecedented encounter all who have held this position at parties and have read the texts of the Matterhorn. In addition, an exhibition will open in the House of Culture on 21 at 20:30, and 22 will route dramatized by Main Street. In August is the traditional time of trial and own embassy embassies; in September will present an illustrated story about these in the collection “reed chair” Caixa Ontinyent, and in October, with the collaboration of the Provincial Council of Valencia, where it will present a book of collected works Cervino and review his biography. The program will continue with new activities until 17 May 2018.