Mojacar’s Children Invited To Light Up Christmas 2025

One fortunate youngster will property nan fastener that turns connected Mojacar’s Christmas lights this twelvemonth – and nan assembly wants section families to put their children’s names forward.

A magical occupation for Mojacar kids

Every year, nan Christmas ray switch-on successful Plaza Nueva feels for illustration nan infinitesimal wintertime really arrives successful Mojacar. Thousands of neighbours and visitors battalion into nan hilltop square, euphony echoes disconnected nan whitewashed walls and, pinch 1 push of a button, nan pueblo spills into gold.

For 2025, nan municipality hallway has decided that nan hands connected that fastener should beryllium to its youngest residents. Children aged 5 to 12, surviving successful Mojacar, tin now participate a typical lottery to beryllium nan 1 (or 1 of nan mini group) who lights up nan colony connected Saturday November 29, during nan Gala Encendido Navideño y Día Disney successful Plaza Nueva.

The assembly says it wants “the existent protagonists of Christmas” – nan children – astatine nan centre of nan evening, which will see a Disney-themed fiesta, euphony and family intermezo from astir 5.30pm.

How your kid tin return part

Parents who would for illustration their kid to beryllium successful nan tie must:

• Send an email to festejos@mojacar.es.
• Include nan child’s afloat name, property (5–12) and a interaction telephone number.
• Make judge nan email arrives earlier 23:59 connected Monday November 24.

All eligible entries will spell into a lottery connected Wednesday November 26 astatine 10am, which will beryllium broadcast unrecorded connected nan municipality hall’s charismatic channels truthful families tin travel nan infinitesimal their child’s sanction is drawn. 

For galore Mojacar families, this is astir much than a photograph connected nan balcony. Since nan pueblo was chosen arsenic Ferrero Rocher’s Christmas municipality successful 2022, nan ray switch-on has go a shared ritual – a nighttime erstwhile neighbours, shopkeepers, Spanish locals and overseas residents each cram together to watch nan colony glow.

This year, 1 section kid will guidelines successful beforehand of them all, consciousness nan countdown emergence successful nan quadrate and, pinch a azygous press, bring Mojacar’s Christmas to life.

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