The Valencian town of Algemesí stages the Virgen de la Salud Fiesta. Without a doubt, the highlight is the 8 September, when the town is overwhelmed with a stream of muixeranga, or acrobats, who form amazing human pyramids.

The Valencian town of Algemesí stages the Virgen de la Salud Fiesta. Without a doubt, the highlight is the 8 September, when the town is overwhelmed with a stream of muixeranga, or acrobats, who form amazing human pyramids.

Church masses, processions, dancing, music and plenty of local food and wine complete the program.

The original name of this festival is the Dance ... Valencian (Valencian Dance), as the old chronicles tell. The muixeranga did not have a religious birth but ended up being absorbed by it, and that dance itself is a collection of paintings plastics intentionality representative.

The members are a gang of men, all sorts of professions, number of currently-illegal are leaving about two hundred times before but only about thirty, led by a teacher in charge with authority undeniable for the coordination of the dance productions, towers and figures of previous trials and support personnel are included. Men of strength and skill, in the past chargers and village workers in the profession, we notice a certain guild as a binder group. The collective memory · group is to the mythical time when Henry Cabrera was back in the twenties master. Llorca is also remembered the Barbero, between forty and seventy. Today the range of its professional members, is in correspondence with a large diversified company.

The costume consists of a tight blouse and straight forward buttons, pants, ears and bonet espardeñas single premium. The fabric is strong enough to strip the red and blue vertical stripes on white background arlequinada available, except the teacher's dress, which has only a piece of each color. It is commonly called the fabric of mattress, and it is clear that time irregular red stripes on a white background without much color.