Last Monday, December 3, the Municipality of Ontinyent, at the proposal of the Society of Festivals, has commissioned the poster of the Celebrations of Moors and Christians of 2019 to the local designer Miguel Ángel Bonilla Sanchez. Born in 1978, he develops his professional work as a graphic designer and illustrator. He is a member of the Font d’Art Board of Ontinyent. In his artistic side, his pictorial work must be…
Ontinyent City Council, at the proposal of the Society of Festeros, has proceeded to name as Pregoner of the Medieval Market the festive Gusmà Vicente Domingo Tormo Vidal. Festive of Comparsa Gusmans, being Primer Tro in 2008, has been part of the Board of the comparsa for several years, has been a representative on the Board of Government of the Sociedad del Santísimo Cristo de la Agonia by the comparsa…
By means of Decree of Mayorship no. 2954/2018, of November 23, the Most Excellent Municipality of Ontinyent has granted a municipal grant of € 24,000 for the entity’s global activity and patrimonial recovery allowing a surplus to the limit of liabilities reduced in l the 2018 financial year
On Saturday, October 20, in the Assembly Hall of the Society of Festeros, the presentation of the heraldry that will accompany the four comparsas de cargo 2019 took place throughout this exciting year that awaits them. One by one, the images that will represent them this year were discovered by the hand of the charges and were later explained by their authors. The logo of the Asturs was presented by…
By the present, and in accordance with the provisions of articles 2 and 3 of the Electoral Rules, and the second paragraph of article 32 of the Statute of the Society of Festivals of the Holy Christ of Agony, is summoned the EXTRAORDINARY ELECTORAL ASSEMBLY for Sunday 11 November at 09.30h. at first call and at 10:00 a.m. in the second call, which will take place at the Casino of…
Alfred Bernabeu i Sanchis, was born in Ontinyent on May 30, 1959. Son of the official chronicler of the city Alfredo Bernabeu and Pepita Sanchis. He holds a degree in Geography and History from the Literary University of Valencia, a doctor in History and a professor of Valencian. He is the current Official Chronicle of the city of Ontinyent, a member of the Government Board of the Association of Cronistas…
The Extraordinary General Assembly is being summoned by the present on Sunday, May 13, 2018 at the Hall of the Festers Society, at 11:00 a.m. at first call and at 11.30 a.m. in second and with the following order of the day: 1- Gravamen of the real estate of the Society of Festeros. Point that I know at the instance of the President. Yours faithfully, Ontinyent, April 27, 2018 THE…
Ontinyent City Council and the Society of Festivals of the Holy Christ of Agony have signed an agreement for the free transfer of the temporary exhibition hall of the Fester Museum. The mayor of Ontinyent, Jorge Rodríguez, and the President of the Society of Festivals, José Rafael Sanchis, accompanied by the Vice President and the Director of the Fester Museum, signed this Friday an agreement that will allow, on the…
On Sunday, April 15, the headquarters of the Society of Festivals of the Holy Christ of Agony of Ontinyent hosted a meeting of the presidents and boards of government of the towns that celebrate Moors and Christians Fiestas to deal with the problems arisen with the application of the new law of explosives. This is a working meeting of festive entities that are not part of the UNDEF, and which…
In 2011, the Society of Festeros, at that time chaired by Rafael Ferrero Terol, filed an application with the Conselleria de Cultura for two of the most emblematic events of the Moors and Christians Festival of Ontinyent, the Baixà del Santísimo Cristo of the Agony and the Embassies, were declared of Cultural Interest (BIC). The request remained paralyzed in the offices of the conselleria for a few years, which coincided…
