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I PARADE OF HISPANITY, Seville 2023

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By Sevilla AndaluNet on 11/10/2023

On the occasion of the festival of 12 October, "Hispanic Heritage Day", and within the “I October Hispanoamericano” in Seville, a series of cultural events related to this great date have been organized.. More than twenty civil associations in our capital have met in the so-called “Forum for the Dissemination of History” to commemorate this important date of the day. 12.

As a culmination of these events the next day 12 In October the “I Parade of Hispanic Heritage” organized by The Third of Olive Groves, As you know, we are a historical recreation association that reflects a third of Spain from the 15th-16th centuries.; to our well-known January departures (Day of the Tercios of Spain), June (Velázquez Anniversary), and december (Miracle of Empel), This will be added the next day 12.

The parade will start at 18.00 hours in the Plaza Jesús de la Pasión and you will visit the most emblematic places related to America that are in our city; about the 18.20 hours the Tercio will tour the Plaza del Triunfo and shortly after arrive at the Archivo de Indias and from there to the Casa de la Moneda, Once the commemorative readings have been read in both places, the parade will head towards Paseo Marqués del Contadero where it will arrive at 18.50 hours where the main event will be held, civil and military authorities as well as the associations belonging to the Forum will witness the raising of the national flag of Spain on the Nao Victoria anchored in the Guadalquivir river. The return of the parade through the center of Seville will have its particular moment with the offering of a bouquet of flowers by the Tercio de Olivares to the Virgin in its chapel of the Brotherhood of the Pure and Clean del Postigo del Aceite.

About the 19.30 Once the offering has been made, the parade will head towards the Plaza Virgen de los Reyes looking for Placentines Street and ending on the 20.00 hours in Jesus of the Passion.

This parade will feature more than forty people dressed as field masters., captain, sergeant, flag bearer, arquebusiers, rodeleros, pikemen and drummers who will be accompanied by ladies dressed according to the customs of the 16th century, the same way, two fifes will liven up the parade with music from the period, As a novelty, the youngest join, “The Infant School”, as well as the associations of the Tercios of Granada and Salamanca.

With this parade we want Seville to reclaim its Americanist ties and for the 12 October will become an important date on our calendar this year to remember the importance of our city in the Latin American world and for this year's parade to become the first of many..