Zalamea, Fuente Ovejuna and Olmedo, three people united by the classical theater.
Olmedo (Valladolid), July 20 .- Zalamea de la Serena (Badajoz), Fuente Ovejuna (Cordoba) and Olmedo (Valladolid), three villages are linked by the classical theater, whose mayors have explained today have strengthened their cultural heritage through works that have been represented.
Francisco Javier Paredes, Mayor of Zalamea, position and also the title of the work of Pedro Calderon de la Barca stated today, while participating in, sto credits, the days of Classic Theatre Festival "Olmedo Classic", which enhance the cultural resource "enriches municipality in all respects. "
In this sense, Paredes pointed out that every year the villagers interpreted the famous play by Calderon de la Barca, since 1994 - and therefore already more than 2,000 people that have participated in this project, which has led to, sto credits, Zalamea to more than 170,000 spectators.
The work, which represents the third weekend of August, "has a budget of 150,000 euros as it requires a painstaking assembly of 90 tons of metal structure, 150,000 kilos of sand, 20,000 square feet of traditional market and parallel activities to the function and 2,400-meter stage. "
"But this initiative not only creates, cheap kinah, jobs" in 2009 was hired over 40 people-and allowed to grow to the municipality, which now has over 300 hotel rooms, but also allows you to see small children recite texts in verse Calderon de la Barca in the streets ", stressed the mayor of Zalamea.
According to Paredes, "it is necessary to create a network of popular theaters in Spain, to continue to maintain these projects in time and open a debate on Intellectual Property Law, which we believe would have to change in some aspects that affect us," he specified.
Mayor de Olmedo, Alfonso Centeno, has shared the concern of his self-titled Extremadura and asked to "create a table where we are all people in that theater plays a key role in its historical and heritage and raise awareness of the circuit municipalities where this represented the classical theater. "
The most recent initiative of this town of Valladolid has been the development of the Festival "Olmedo Classic, which this year celebrates its fifth edition and in which, from the first day, they turned all the residents of the village and 240 subscriptions were sold without knowing they were going to find. "
It is precisely this union of municipalities at the time to assert their cultural heritage has been an issue that has highlighted Isabel Cabezas, deputy mayor for Fuente Ovejuna, a town that gave rise to the story written by Lope de Vega and made famous by the "all for one, as in Fuente Ovejuna."
In this case every four years, the municipality is dumped in the representation of this work, the next will be in 2012 - which has a budget of 240,000 euros, which started in 1992 to be gaining momentum "thanks mainly to the involvement of young people that are the legacy of this project. "
Zalamea, Olmedo and Fuente Ovejuna are just three examples of a wide range of Spanish municipalities that are linked to the classical theater-like cases or Ocana-Illescas, today gave a first step in the celebration of a cultural encounter, where can further enhance their artistic heritage. 1010588mim / jcp / tg