Festival Medieval Elx 2007

from 19th to 1st of October 2007

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.

Organized by:

Información Turistica Elx

Festival's History

7th Edition

The programme of this edition of the Medieval Festival started with the standard bearers procession Citta Murata, the performance of Els Buffons playing Minuta Pecata and Juana en Rouen by NSM.
During the weekend music of Alica Música and La cobla de Bergara were played, as well as Paco Curto and Archiperre, that staged classcial plays like Lazarillo and El Poema del Mío Cid.
The last week of the Festival covered seminars of medieval music and theatre, wonderful performances of the Misteri d’Elx, Música de la Vespra by Capella de Ministrers and a concert of Música de la España de los Reyes Católicos by The State Philarmonic of Moscow.

Standard bearers parade in the cityâs streets.

Banners, correfocs, medieval markets and an exposition about La Vida en los Castillos completed the annual transformation of this city during this important festival, that makes visitors to come back in time and help them to understand the origins of our thousand years old metropolis.

Minstrels and jugglers at the Medieval Festival

Especiales

Misteri d'Elx World Heritage

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

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