Moros Marinos
Primer Tro
Alberto Pérez Sanchis
Presidency
José Enrique Mollá Sanchis
Secretary
Antonio Soriano Morant
Treasury
Josep Minsut Silvestre
Representative
Francisco Camacho Güeto
Data of interest
Born in 1865 with the idea of opposing a Saracen fleet to the Christian fleet in naval combat in the waters of the Clariano River, they manned a new frigate, called Almanzor, in memory of the fearsome and victorious warrior Muhammad Ibn Abi Amir, known as al-Mansur. , “The Victorious”. Possibly acquired with the funds contributed by the members of the Board of Directors of Fiestas, the “El Porvenir” Casino or the members of the row itself.
His participation was relegated to the following year due to morbid cholera. The new group, under the name of Moros Marinos, forged at the headquarters of the “El Porvenir” Casino, came to enlarge the Saracen hosts with “Turkish-style” attire and carrying polished wooden shovels. It was formed by relevant people, with high economic power, members and sympathizers of the conservative party, whose relationship remains hidden between the seams of our history.
For a little more than a century and a half, they walk triumphantly through the streets and squares at the reveille and at the entrance to the pasodobles agreements and Moorish marches and at the beginning of military marches; in the sacrifice of the mass and in the procession, they fill the rite that since 1860 has led to turning Ontinyent into Christian and Moorish.
Over the course of many years, accompanied by music, they showed the beauty of their disappeared dance, recorded in the press throughout the 19th and part of the 20th centuries, and in a unique way at the Regional Exhibition of Valencia (1909). Like the long-awaited “Nit del Riu”, filled with joy and entertainment, in which the role played by the frigate “Almanzor”, along with the Christian “Méndez Núñez”, decorated and illuminated in the Venetian style and dragged by mules, They sailed in the waters of the Clariano River to make the historical scenes linked to the sea their own, remembering past times when they came to defend our coasts from the attacks of Berber and Tunisian pirates.
Sailing the seas of the festival, the Moorish sailors have guided the Saracen hosts on countless occasions, carrying and guarding the banner with the crescent of the moon and declaiming the grandiloquent verses of the embassy from the deck of the frigate, where old and new Generations of Moorish sailors hoist on their bow all their wishes and dreams between days captivated by a town and its people.
Music for the Moros Marinos
· “Moros Marinos”
(M.M. – 194?) L. Buades Roca
· “Norma Garen”
(M.M. – 1988) M. Gandía Conejero
· “Pla El Panader”
(M.M. – 1992) J. E. Canet Ferri
· “El Turco d’Ontinyent”
(M.M. – 1997) M.A. García Boscá
· “Moros Marinos”
(M.M. – 2005) J. Ferrero Forcada
· “Ibn Al-amn (al meu cosí)”
(M.M. – 2006) P. Sanchis Ferràndiz
· “Els Triers”
(M.M. – 2006) D.J. Ferrero Silvage
· “Sharaf-Abi”
(M.M. – 2009) J.A. Boluda Ponce
· “Nit del Riu”
(M.M. – 2011) E. Alborch Tarrasó
· “Sheik”
(M.M. – 2012) E. Orquín Aleixandre
· “Mahfilla”
(M.M. – 2015) S. Gómez i Soler
· “Tughra”
(M.M. – 2018) S. Gómez i Soler
· “Indra Mare”
(Ballet – 2018) X. Gandia Navarro
