We are at the gates of a new inn in the scene of the arrival of the Kings Mags to Gata. The culmination of the festivities to the voltant of Nadal and Any Nou last in our town in all the brilliant seua with the name Misteri de Reis, unique in the region and in many other points of the Valencian Community.
The transformation of this festival so esteemed by the gaters and especially by the infants of the gaters is a reality. The change is relevant. At the age of 40 of the second century, this marvelous initiative began to take shape. The year 1968 was fortressed with a text written by Antonio Salvá Roselló, who needed an adequate stage and some characters to interpret that “auto” with the remote “autos sagramentales”. From the balcony of Casa Don Julián, the metge and mayor of the town, is going to pass at the 70th of the second century to Avinguda la Pau. A esquenes or davant, the mateix donava, from the train station is going to install that mountain for which many artists aficionados of Gata have passed, who have viscut any rere any the magic of the Kings of Gata.
The traditional stage is engrandia and s'engrandia with a xiquet that is fa sagalet, facing a greater amplitude. Anava matured-sense lost the traditional arrels that he will carry to eixe lloc.
The exciting journey of the peasantry and Their Majesties from Avinguda la Pau to Plaça de l'Església where the Portal de Betlem was installed, was also a great tradition, enlarging the corsage to return us to retrobar amb la innocence, the evidence. I intermingled, that Judean town, which was intended to be an addendum to the great comboi de Reis, but which will give way to the monumental and spectacular that required the most fascinating scenery, the Palau d'Herodes.
In the last huit anys, the sagalet has grown, has experienced a great change. In 2015, the Town Hall of Gata and all those who can fan this “enchanting” advise that it be declared a Provincial Tourist Interest Festival. Any 2017 is a fan of a saint's day, it is celebrating the 50 years of that beautiful project and while the representation and scenes are going to believe. Any 2021, the so feared pandemic ho paralitza all, ends and all this party. Any 2022, there are almost no restrictions but with several security and health measures, it is looking for a different scenario, which will meet these requirements. I is troba, appears the platform of the great orchestras of festivals estiuenques, of the great events with many people, the patio of the schools of all life. There, all the asseguts, assist to the representation of the Mystery and ho observe the her great majesty. Tradition is turned spectacle. The lloc ho facilitates.
Arribem als Reis de 2023. It premieres another nomenament, well deserved by the efforts of all the people who participate there and who are possible on this magical evening. From June 2022 it has been declared a Festival of Autonomous Tourist Interest. It will repeat the mateix lloc, the one of l'espectacle. S'innovarà or més bé es revindrà la vinguda dels Reis Mags flanquejats per la banda de música, com es feia fa bona cosa de temps. The royal follow-up from Avinguda de la Pau will begin at 18:5 p.m. on the 18th of Gen, passing through the streets of the Cor Gater and pushing through the Costera del Grup Escolar and will donate an other gift that will surprise you. The show at the Palau d'Herodes will begin at 30:XNUMX p.m. The Coveta de Betlem will also be there, to that scene that will "invent the pandemic" and the baixada de l'àngel will become a reality.
And it is also the moment of gratitude. From the direction of the scene and coordination that Antonio Monfort, ànima mater of this show, aims at all the people of the sections that participate in the City Council that is there to recognize the cultural event and festival, to all of them a big applause.
For the change, for the renewal, the tradition has turned into a spectacle... And let it continue for bé.
