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In celebration where all the town participates in acts that sink their roots in century XIII.
Our supervisory celebrations begin the 1 of May, although like celebration, for us day 30 begins of April, and for others it is not known where they begin and where they finish. Anyway the great day is the 2.
It opens to the morning the appearance mass. In this celebration the appearance is commemorated de la Cross of the patriarch of Jerusalem, carried by two angels, to Ginés Priest Perez Chirinos when it was put to sing mass without having the Cross ahead.
According to the legend the king Moor Ceyt Abuceyt (or Muley Acebuey), became to the at sight Christianity of the miracle. Here he is where he has the exciting and original origin this celebration.
The morning continues with the spectacularity of the race of the Horses of Wine, where it is united the horse and four riders who accompany in the ascent the castle to him. Running the hill harnessed with mantles embroidered worked with surprising love.
The embroidering of the mantles, in gold and silk, spills fantasy and good for doing, giving a thread lesson, needle, art and color.
The origin of celebration is based on a tradition on which the granadinos Muslims surrounded the castle, being this defending by the Horsemen of Temple, where the population takes refuge.
The siege became unbearable and the waters when corrupting untie an epidemic. Four templarios horsemen deceive the wall in search of water, do not find water, but they return to the castle with wine and to the blessed being they give it to drink the patients, who miraculously heal.
One does not know or if to locate the facts in century XII or XIII.
From a more historical point of view, the first antecedents of the celebration of the celebration properly happiness, go back to century XVII, with the bath de la Cross in the wine, the morning of the 2 of May. The wine came from the important property of the environs, the council and the order of Santiago.
Nevertheless, until the first third of century XIX an interpretation of festejo would not fructify similar to the present one, being the first reference written on the participation of the horse in year 1,899, is a manuscript of the priest Francisco Rooms.
Since then the velebration to evolved in its form and representation.
Three times could be distinguished, first arrives up to 1,936, when the rivalries between families are born and is the crowd the one that decides with its applause as it is the showiest and adorned horse. The clothes of the young men is made up of canvas shoes, wraps, black trousers and handkerchief to the neck. One gets dressed to the so single horse in one "colcha", "atacolas", "brión" with the bells and the mall pillow.
In 1.920 the first schematic is made on the Horses of Wine: two minutes of film within a documentary one on Caravaca.
At one second time it contemplates resurging of festejo after the Civil War, appears the Jury, and the "caballista" acquires greater importance. The families (still the rocks are not known) take body and she is obtained that the perviva celebration in the difficult years, with the Rajaos, Chavos, the Prawn... With the custom that the owner of the horse went such with friends.
In the last stage, the present one, appears the complexity in the embroiderings, the figures, the flags, the faldoneras, and the bracelets in hands and legs. In 1.972 they appear the first rocks, that they by themselves pay for the exit of its horse, the Zambra or the Terry.
But we comment the celebration, being the 30 of April when they really begin with the night of migas. In the morning of the 1 of May floral offering to our "Santísima and Vera Cross" and in afternoon, it appears the horse, it is celebrated the aid of horses to hair in the seat of the Hole (today seat of the Horses of Wine), the Jury it awards the best horse, to the one of better stamp, is not an aid of taming, nor race, single an exhibition of the horse. At dusk the people cross the premises to appreciate the exposed mantles that are brilliant in the day 2, Lloverá, It will not rain; she never knows herself.
On the four in the morning the workings begin, to clean, to cepillar, to prepare the mantles. IT IS the RITUAL, behind closed doors gets dressed the horse.
With the sun, they begin to appear the horses, the first rough estimates, to acompasar the steps... resonating of the helmets and the bells. After the mass of appearance and to the term, the streets, CARAVACA are crossed, ALREADY IS CARAVACA, crowded the streets, the balconies, the Great one Via, the high street and like not the Castle, to see run the hill. Opening the parade this morning, the Moors and Christians. In the Carmelite convent a tray takes shelter of flowers, the blessing of the flowers is made, and to hope at that the culminating moments, the race and the prizes to the horse better harnessed arrive.
During the race, the four "caballistas" together with the harnessed horse break through between the crowd. Hardly the feet touch the ground.
According to D. Pedro Ballester to be caballista " it is an art, because to run the horse with force and elegance without clearing developed to him it requires learning and veteran"
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