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The Brotherhood of San Antón de La Copa organizes with the collaboration of the City of Bullas the festival in honor of the patron and protector of animals, San Antón.
The great bonfire on Saturday 19, highlights among its actions, which recalls those traditionally made by the people of the field to thank the employer for having kept their animals healthy.
It is accompanied by a fellowship dinner of all the cupbearers and visitors and will begin to burn at 8 o'clock in the afternoon.
Before 16:30 a band will tour the streets of the town cheering the neighbors and house by house the Board will deliver the program of parties.
On Sunday 20 a Mass is celebrated at 11 o'clock in the morning and at the exit the traditional auction takes place in which the cupbearers donate different products, most of them homemade, with an exquisite palate, which will then be raffled, helping to maintain the party and this rich tradition.
Also, the San Antón scrolls will be distributed, which have been blessed in the celebration of the mass.
In the afternoon, from 4:00 pm, other acts are celebrated, on the one hand, the great children's strike with bombardment of sweets and, on the other hand, the Baile del Inocente or Animas, which is a puja dance where, a rhythm of pasodobles, jotas or malagueñas, the innocent, dressed in a typical attire of the S. XVIII, encourages the dance and causes that both locals and strangers get involved in this peculiar event.
The festival concludes with the traditional procession at 6.30 in the afternoon in which, at the height of Llano de la Fuente, animals are blessed, brought not only from this district but also from neighboring Bullas and from the fields next.
Next, a fireworks castle is opened.
And later, the procession with the Saint continues until the Church.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Bullas
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