The journalist and writer Andreu Manresa will announce the festivities in the event to commemorate the 786th anniversary of the landing of the King en Jaume I troops
The Rei en Jaume festivities of Calvià, which commemorate the 786th anniversary of the landing, will start on Saturday 5th September finishing on Sunday 13th September.
This year, the journalist and writer Andreu Manresa will announce the festivities.
Andreu Manresa is the delegate and correspondent of El País in the Balearic Islands, and has been director of Radio Nacional in the Balearics and Catalonia. Amongst other works, he has published Joan Estelrich, obres essencials (1987), El Rey y Mallorca (1987), Felanitx, felanitxers (1994), Baleares S.A. (1996), Felanitxeràlia (1998), Paratges i personatges de 'Balears S.A.' (2005), or Invitació a la felicitat (2008). Andreu Manresa is knowledgeable about the reality of the island's, villages, people, customs and traditions, which every Sunday he talks about in the articles which under the epigraph La Crónica de Baleares publishes in the pages of El País, and, since a year ago, in the columns which he writes for the web in Catalan of El País.
The festivities announcement is framed within the landing of the King en Jaume commemorative event, to which the authorities attend and in which the Mayor will give the institutional speech. It will take place on Thursday 10th September at the Santa Ponça Cross. This event, together with the final battle are the most outstanding activities of the festivities in which this year are introduced a series of novelties.
The Rei en Jaume Route will take place for the first time, which will guide the Calvian writer Pere Morey, and which will arrive at the Dragonera. Also, a naïf parade will take place for the first time, by the Circ Bover. Other novelties are the Castellers de Mallorca which will rise their human towers in Santa Ponça, and the Holi festival which will give colour to la Pinada.
The XXIX Rei en Jaume Regatta will do the tour from Salou to Santa Ponça, as the Conqueror did, from 10th to 12th September, and on Sunday 13th September the firework display will put and end to the most important festivities of the municipality of Calvià.