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Festival Medieval d'Elx: 5th Edition Download Festival Medieval 2012 Event's Schedule

Festival Medieval Elx 2010

from 25th October to 1st November

Every year the Medieval Festival of Elche involves the city in the mistic and sounds of remote times. International artists bring through music, theatre and parallel activities the opportunity to encounter the past.

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Información Turistica Elx

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Festival's History

5th Edition

In 1998 the philosophy of the Festival is widen and new events from different cultures were added. The Festival maintains the duality between learned and popular topics, it enhaces theatrical spectacles from the city of Elx and it maintains the didactic character regarding theoretical studies in the Seminar.

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Popular cortège from the Fiesta of Santa Tecla (Tarragona). Streets of Elx 31/10/88

The slogan of this edition is “Mediaeval theatre, Theatre alive”. The Mediaeval Market, which occupied the centre of the city from the 23rd to the 25th October, put once again mediaeval culture to the reach of to the citizen with passacaglia and street animation, theatre featuring characters from that time, jugglers… and the sale of typical products of that period. The Festival produced an own version of “Tirant lo Blanc” and companies coming from Estonius (Rondellus), France (Fin’Amor, Occitan music), Norway (Kongen Med Gullhjelment), Colombia (Viento Teatro), Italy (Teatro Cinetífico) and, of course, Spain, strengthened the outstanding international perspective of the Festival.

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“Coplas por la muerte” Teatro Corsario. Gran Teatre d’Elx 31/10/1998

Especiales

Misteri d'Elx World Heritage

Misterid'Elx

The Misteri d’Elx, the most genuine cultural event in town, is a medieval sung drama that has been distinguished as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Immaterial World Heritage List of the UNESCO in the year 2001.l

Discover Elx

Misterid'Elx

Elx is situated in the south of Valencia (Spain). It has an intense history reaching back to more than five thousand years. Doubtlessly, the city’s distant past symbol is the Dama d’Elx, a sculpture of a lady dated in the IV century BC, regarded by scholars as a masterpiece of Iberian art. On the other hand, the Palm Groves are the most outstanding feature of the city’s Hispanic-Muslim heritage