{"id":6412,"date":"2017-08-22T18:21:49","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T16:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/?p=6412"},"modified":"2017-08-22T18:21:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T16:21:49","slug":"cristo-rey-hamlet-sopalmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/cristo-rey-hamlet-sopalmo\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristo Rey Fiesta at Moj\u00e1car\u00b4s hamlet, Sopalmo."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Cristo Rey Fiesta at Moj\u00e1car\u00b4s hamlet, Sopalmo.<\/p>\n<p>Sopalmo recently held its traditional Cristo Rey Fiesta, in honour of their Patron Saint, which is held every year at the height of Moj\u00e1car\u2019s tourist season.<\/p>\n<p>Moj\u00e1car\u2019s Tourist Office Manager, Carmen Garc\u00eda Campoy, gave the opening speech, speaking of Sopalmo\u2019s tranquil way of life, just like Moj\u00e1car of old.\u00a0 Mar\u00eda Isabel Montoya Garc\u00eda was then crowned Fiesta Queen with Ana Artero Ayora, Andrea Garc\u00eda Gonz\u00e1lez, Roc\u00edo Garc\u00eda P\u00e9rez and Marisa Haro Torres presented as her Dames of Honour.<\/p>\n<p>The Fiesta also revived its traditional ribbon race for married couples (for the first time in years) as well as for the children, giving the chance for many older ones to take part in the fun, once again.\u00a0 There was also the traditional mass to pay honour to Cristo Rey, followed by dancing until the early hours.<\/p>\n<p>Jos\u00e9 Antonio Fern\u00e1ndez, Mayor of the local hamlet, was delighted with the number of locals who took part in the proceedings and, gave special thanks to the many visitors who joined in and made it all so special.<\/p>\n<p>The hamlet of Sopalmo, is part of the Moj\u00e1car municipality and, with its position at the edge of the Mediterranean, offers some of the most spectacular views along the Almerian coast.\u00a0 Today it is still restful and charming, managing to keep the feel and magic of times gone by and be a place that offers an opportunity for peace in its delightful setting.\u00a0 Sopalmo, however, was once the scene of intense industrial activity in the 19th century with the exploitation of the three iron mines in Sierra de Cabrera, located between Soplamo and La Belfa.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristo Rey Fiesta at Moj\u00e1car\u00b4s hamlet, Sopalmo. Sopalmo recently held its traditional Cristo Rey Fiesta, in honour of their Patron [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad-en","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6414,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412\/revisions\/6414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}