12/15/2020 Monforte dresses for Christmas to say goodbye to 2020 and to welcome 2021. The monuments and main spaces of the city enjoy the setting to bring the Christmas spirit to the entire city. This year, the star of the Plaza de España was exchanged for a gift-package-bow that symbolizes, in the words of the Mayor, José Tomé, “a new hope and a new illusion for the next year 2021. A year we wish to come full of joy and opportunities for all, and may he give us health, normality and economic progress for all, leaving behind the nightmare of the Covid-19 pandemic ”. The City Council of Monforte seeks that the atmosphere in the streets helps to stimulate local commerce and that the purchases of these dates are made in the city.
Many of the usual activities in the Christmas program had to be canceled to adapt to the pandemic control protocols and design a program adapted to the circumstances determined by the sanitary conditions.
Programming
Until December 16th, the exhibition hall of the Culture House has a Hebrew Nativity Scene by J. Antonio Davila.
On Thursday, December 17th, at 8.15pm in the Multiusos Building, Baixo da Agua Theater Company will offer the play Poet in New York. After this appointment with the adult theater of the Galician Network of Theaters and Auditoriums, the next theatrical proposal will be with amateur theater, within the Argalladas Cycle, it will be represented on December 19th, Hotel Desencanto, of the Hipócrita Theater Company.
El Apalpador, a traditional Christmas character, will visit the streets of the city and the market area of the Plaza de Abastos during the morning of December 24th.
The little ones at home are the ones who enjoy the most on these dates and to continue filling them with enthusiasm they will have activities such as the representation of Companion Animals, by the Noroeste Theater Company. The appointment will be on December 28th at 6:00 p.m. in the Culture House. Already on Monday, January 4th, at 8:00 p.m., Gabriel Prada will offer the theatrical show for family audiences, Quimera.
The exteriors of the houses and shop windows show their Christmas decorations by participating in the decoration competition launched by the City Council.
