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This new website has been created to promote some of the local facilities, activities, special events and services that might be of interest to the English speaking community in Coin & surrounding areas... More
Foreigners’ Department
You can now get assistance in English at Coin Council.... More
Film Review & trailer
The next film in English at La Trocha is yet to be confirmed. We are currently waiting fore film distributors to advise us about available English soundtracks.. More
English Library Books
The Municipal Library in Coin now has a section of Foreign Language books, and it’s free to join! ..... More
What’s on/Coming up..
Course fishing competition, TAPAS new comedy play, Arts festival for Coin, RBL trip to Granada, Country & Western Night.... More
Coin’s 1st Acoustic Blues Festival- A roaring success with an international line-up of artists..... More
Volunteers still needed to be ‘usherettes’ at the cinema A couple of people have volunteered to help out but we need more... Do you fancy helping people find their seat numbers at the cinema?? Contact Ricky...
More
And from you...
Local services - If you’ve had excellent service locally and want to tell others - now is your chance!
Events Guide - Are you involved in a local event that needs promoting? Send details and get your event included in the ‘What’s on’.
This new website has been created to promote some of the local facilities, activities, special events and services that might be of interest to the English speaking community in Coin & surrounding areas... More
Foreigners’ Department
You can now get assistance in English at Coin Council.... More
Film Review & trailer
The next film in English at La Trocha is yet to be confirmed. We are currently waiting fore film distributors to advise us about available English soundtracks.. More
English Library Books
The Municipal Library in Coin now has a section of Foreign Language books, and it’s free to join! ..... More
What’s on/Coming up..
Course fishing competition, TAPAS new comedy play, Arts festival for Coin, RBL trip to Granada, Country & Western Night.... More
Coin’s 1st Acoustic Blues Festival- A roaring success with an international line-up of artists..... More
Volunteers still needed to be ‘usherettes’ at the cinema A couple of people have volunteered to help out but we need more... Do you fancy helping people find their seat numbers at the cinema?? Contact Ricky...
More
And from you...
Local services - If you’ve had excellent service locally and want to tell others - now is your chance!
Events Guide - Are you involved in a local event that needs promoting? Send details and get your event included in the ‘What’s on’.
The most colourful procession of the year - the Romeria de Coin...
The basic timetable of events...
The “romeros” leave the Plaza Alameda in Coin on Saturday May 30th at 10am and head for the hermitage site towards Monda.
At the hermitage site at 10pm there is a celebration at the eucharist of Llano de las Marias by Reverend Gonzalo Martin Fernandez. After which the statue of the virgin will visit all the ‘Houses of Llano’.
The “romeros” leave the shrine on Sunday May 31st at 5 pm and walk back into Coin town centre. The statue of the virgin is then returned to it’s temple, the Church of San Juan Bautista before heading back out to the hermitage church next May.
The “romeros” leave the Plaza Alameda in Coin on Saturday May 30th at 10am and head for the hermitage site towards Monda.
At the hermitage site at 10pm there is a celebration at the eucharist of Llano de las Marias by Reverend Gonzalo Martin Fernandez. After which the statue of the virgin will visit all the ‘Houses of Llano’.
The “romeros” leave the shrine on Sunday May 31st at 5 pm and walk back into Coin town centre. The statue of the virgin is then returned to it’s temple, the Church of San Juan Bautista before heading back out to the hermitage church next May.
Normally the first weekend in June but confirmed as last weekend in May for 2009 - Romeria de la Fuensanta is the most colourful event of the year with lots of traditional costumes for men and women.
The Romeria (or pilgrimage) is in honour of the Virgin de Fuensanta statue that is housed in the little church at the hermitage site for the month of May.
Pilgrims, carts and wagons pulled by horses, donkeys, bulls and tractors, all make their way out of town on Saturday morning to the hermitage site towards Monda. The procession starts at 10am but there are so many floats, wagons and romeros (pilgrms) that the last ones do not leave the square until around 1pm.
Once they arrive at the hermitage the romeros divide up into their social groups and start to party. Music, dancing, singing and displays of horsemanship are all to be found in the small ‘casetas’ that each group has set up. Some of these makeshift bars are private, others will let visitors in for a drink and to join in the entertainment. There is a large public bar and toilets are on site.
Also there is the chance to pay your respects to the Virgin in the small hermitage church which looks very plain on the outside but has the most ornate plaster ceiling inside. Pilgrims file into the church and pass around the statue before heading back out again.
Buses run from the Alameda de Coin to the hermitage site from Saturday afternoon all the way through to Sunday afternoon. Tokens for the buses can be bought in the Alameda Square and the buses run every few minutes. You cannot drive to the hermitage site over this weekend.
After a boozy night of dancing, revelry, music and camping out under the stars, the procession back to town starts on Sunday afternoon.
The Sunday afternoon procession marks the return of the statue of the Virgin de Fuensanta to her home in the main church in Coin’s Plaza Bermudez de la Rubia
This is definitely a an event not to be missed, whether you just want to watch the morning procession leaving town, the less frantic Sunday night trip back or even if you want to take one of the special buses that run back and forth to the hermitage site.
The Romeria (or pilgrimage) is in honour of the Virgin de Fuensanta statue that is housed in the little church at the hermitage site for the month of May.
Pilgrims, carts and wagons pulled by horses, donkeys, bulls and tractors, all make their way out of town on Saturday morning to the hermitage site towards Monda. The procession starts at 10am but there are so many floats, wagons and romeros (pilgrms) that the last ones do not leave the square until around 1pm.
Once they arrive at the hermitage the romeros divide up into their social groups and start to party. Music, dancing, singing and displays of horsemanship are all to be found in the small ‘casetas’ that each group has set up. Some of these makeshift bars are private, others will let visitors in for a drink and to join in the entertainment. There is a large public bar and toilets are on site.
Also there is the chance to pay your respects to the Virgin in the small hermitage church which looks very plain on the outside but has the most ornate plaster ceiling inside. Pilgrims file into the church and pass around the statue before heading back out again.
Buses run from the Alameda de Coin to the hermitage site from Saturday afternoon all the way through to Sunday afternoon. Tokens for the buses can be bought in the Alameda Square and the buses run every few minutes. You cannot drive to the hermitage site over this weekend.
After a boozy night of dancing, revelry, music and camping out under the stars, the procession back to town starts on Sunday afternoon.
The Sunday afternoon procession marks the return of the statue of the Virgin de Fuensanta to her home in the main church in Coin’s Plaza Bermudez de la Rubia
This is definitely a an event not to be missed, whether you just want to watch the morning procession leaving town, the less frantic Sunday night trip back or even if you want to take one of the special buses that run back and forth to the hermitage site.
