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Mula revolutionizes an Easter that could easily detach from the nickname "Santa" because its origin suggests a birth partner to protest excessive religiosity that prevailed from the religious authorities and the common people at certain stages of history.
That's why before the candle wax dripping the steep streets of the town with their passion processions, Mula has heard the peculiar sound of Easter: "The Night of the drums."
It is the most unique festival that takes place in Mula along the entire calendar.
The Holy Tuesday at 12 pm, the "Calling Tamborada" marks the moment in which the thousands of drummers, gathered in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento and black robes, they are "allowed" to sound skins their drums.
And continuously until 4 pm on Holy Wednesday, the music will silence deafening sound any hint of its source.
Good Friday from morning and Easter Sunday from noon episode repeats within hours that the Mayor's Bando sets and disseminates before the start of Holy Week.
The origin of this unique festival, declared of National Tourist Interest, it was far much to pay allegiance to the recollection of Holy Week released by the ecclesiastical powers and the bourgeoisie.
City ordinances collect, at least since the mid-nineteenth century, recommendations for "good behavior" of the inhabitants of the town and express prohibitions of "walking through the streets with drums" except in processions and with the permission of the authority.
It must have been around this time that he consolidated the practice, associated with people and reviled by the Church and the affluent.
After the controversial birth of the drum in touch Mula, continuing impediments came the drummers found throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
All these obstacles put in the deafening protest, led by the city and the church had no other consequence than a reaffirmation of the original recalcitrant habit though, so yes, always under a continuous and comprehensive municipal control until, with the arrival of the democracy, comes to occupy the place deserved to offer distinctive Mula.
Mula is also a perfect setting for this unique concert percussion.
Its ancient streets and squares are surrounded by countless mansions, churches, chapels, monasteries, medieval shields and steep streets.
Not surprisingly since 1981 Mula is declared historical-artistic national.
And they are many interesting places to visit within the city.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Mula
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