More than fifty women participated in the event, scheduled as part of the March 8th activities organized by the Women's and Culture Councils.
A statement from the Department of Culture and Social Welfare reports that more than fifty women participated this Saturday in the activity planned for March 8th, "Wandering among books, stories, and legends. An informative walk through Cieza."
“Enjoying literature and history can be an added attraction that adds to the pleasure of strolling or walking. Only by walking can you truly get to know the city, using all five senses,” says writer Antonio Muñoz Molina. Walking, for example, reveals that a city like Cieza is full of iconic places that evoke writers, books, pages of history, or that evoke memories, anecdotes, and legends.
“The freedom to walk has been celebrated long before the Romantics, who were perhaps the ones who most popularized it. Rousseau used it in his 'Reveries of a Solitary Walker' as a thinking technique; and many others use it to better experience and understand our city and its surroundings.”
“Wandering, walking among books and memories in the corners and notable places of our town. That's what Fernando Fernández and Antonio Balsalobre did last Saturday, with more than fifty women, as part of the March 8th activities. They did so with an emphasis on recovering and disseminating the lives and works of some of our local writers who have passed away: poets, storytellers, historians, journalists, bibliographers... seeking to spark interest in the literature and history of Cieza.”
“Without any scholarly pretensions and solely with the aim of turning this street map, full of anecdotes, into an informative walk, the route started at the Corner of the Convent, to continue along the Paseo, Mesones Street and the Convent of Las Claras, Cadenas Street, the Church of La Asunción, the Hermitage of San Bartolomé and the balcony of the Muro, Cartas Street, Albaicín, La Hontana and the Hermitage of San Sebastián, to conclude the route at the Erica del Hospicio.”
"A tour in which the 'guides' delighted attendees with stories, legends, and anecdotes from the various places they visited, including the origins of the Convent of San Joaquín and San Pascual, the crime on Cartas Street, and the story of 'the Pascual Incarnation.'"
A successful activity concluded at the Las Morericas Senior Center, where attendees shared refreshments.