The president of the Society of Festivals, together with representatives of the Moors and Christians of Alcoy, Villena and Elda, held a telematic meeting with the Minister of Health of the Generalitat, Ana Barceló, which analyzed the current situation and the possible forecast for the celebration of the festivities. According to Vicent Pla Vaello, the counselor told them that the “situation is complicated” although the Valencian Community “is better than…

The excellent City Council of Ontinyent has granted a municipal subsidy of 27,000 euros for the acquisition and adaptation of the warehouse of the Society of Festeros to the commercial premises located in the street Arzobispo Segrià, 30 of the city.

Always considering that the most important is and will continue to be to face and overcome the painful health crisis we are suffering, from the Society of Festeros del Santísimo Cristo de la Agonía of Ontinyent have been following a series of actions that were manifested to the communiqué that was issued last April 8, 2020 after consultation with the members of the Governing Board representing the 24 comparsas, and…

The Regional Ministry awards the fourth prize to the Festeros Society. The Department of Education, Research, Culture and Sport of the Generalitat Valenciana has awarded the Society of Ontinyent Festeros and specifically in the book of festivals 2019 the fourth prize for best publication in the field of festive of the Valencian Community. This recognition also means a prize of 3,500 euros. This competition opened by the Ministry evaluated criteria…

Last October 1st, a delegation of the Moors and Christians of Ontinyent, headed by Vicente Pla, president of the Society of Festeros del Santísimo Cristo de la Agonía and a representation of the Mudejar group formed by the captain Alberto Climent, the president of the group Carlos Sarrió, The Primer tro Juan José Lliso and the Mudejar in charge of the captaincy’s cultural project, Rafael Ferrero, attended the reception organised…

Last Monday, July 29, the president of the Society of Festivities of the Most Holy Christ of the Agony of Ontinyent, Vicent Pla and his vice president, Javier Ureña, met with Felipe Carrasco, regional deputy in the Valencian Courts, and Joan Sanchis, deputy of the Vall d’Albaida in the Diputación de Valencia, to transfer them the problem about the distribution, storage and use of gunpowder during the festive events, as…

The Festival belongs to the people and to the people, so they present the basis for regulating the work of graphic media during the events of the Festival of Moors and Christians in Ontinyent. Being clear that there is the right to information, we have to put the common eye on mutual respect between people. If the public cannot enjoy the show that is offered, if the party cannot participate…

The act moves with full consensus just one month before: June 29 The governing board of the Ontinyent Festeros Society, under the chairmanship of Vicent Pla Vaello, has put forward its first major proposal. In addition, it has done so with the unanimity of the 24 comparsas, who have given their full support to the change of the publication date. This year will move to June 29. The idea, proposed…

SANTIAGO SANCHIS MULLOR   Born in Ontinyent in 1970, with a journalistic vocation since he was very young, in 1993 he graduated in Information Sciences from the Faculty of Journalism of CEU San Pablo-Universitat Politècnica de València. Since then he went through different newsrooms to train for the trade: Crónica magazine, the Canarias 7 newspaper of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the news services of Radio Activa in Ontinyent, 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…