CHRISTMAS 2022 PROGRAMME
🗓️ Thursday 1.12 to Saturday 31.12
Benissa Christmas Coupon Campaign.
🗓️ Friday 2.12
7.30 PM 🎄Lighting of the Christmas lights, Christmas show and hot chocolate sampling, with the participation of SIFASOL, rhythmic gymnastics pupils, the housewives’ association and the Dénia gospel choir. Plaça Jaume I.
10.00 PM Presentation concert for Quique Ramírez’s first record, “Through the darkness”. Cultural hall.
Saturday 3.12
🗓️10.00 AM and 11.00 AM Christmas clay sculpting workshop taught by Encarna Soler (ages 5 through 9). Youth Centre.
🗓️11:00 AM to 1:00 PM “Pastissets de Nadal” (Christmas pastries) experience visit at the DULCIPAN bakery. Appointments open until 10 AM on the day of the visit.
Language: German.
7.00 PM Unveiling of the Nativity scene. Taller d’Ivars art centre.
7.00 PM and 10.00 PM Film screening: “The Man from Rome” (“La piel del tambor.”) Cultural hall.
7.30 PM Concert by the OMA (Orquestra de la Marina Alta). Taller d’Ivars art centre.
🗓️Sunday 4.12
6.00 PM and 9.00 PM Film screening: “The Man from Rome” (“La piel del tambor.”) Cultural hall.
6.30 PM “Vila de Benissa” Valencian pilota tournament. Escala i Corda. First semi-finals. Ball court.
🗓️Tuesday 6.12
6.30 PM Vila de Benissa” Valencian pilota tournament. Escala i Corda. Second semi-finals. Ball court.
🗓️Wednesday, 7.12
11.00 AM to 1.00 PM Pastissets de Nadal” (Christmas pastries) experience visit at the NAVARRO bakery. Appointments open until 10 AM on the day of the visit.
Language: Spanish
🗓️Saturday, 10.12
11:00 AM to 1:00 PM Pastissets de Nadal” (Christmas pastries) experience visit at the DULCIPAN bakery. Appointments open until 10 AM on the day of the visit.
Language: Spanish*
6.00 PM and 7.00 PM Staged Nativity scene organised by Júniors Benissa. Plaça del Convent.
7.00 PM and 10.00 PM Screening of the film “Stories Not To Be Told” (“Historias para no contar.”) Cultural hall.
🗓️Sunday 11.12
9.00 AM to 2.00 PM Antiques market. Paseo Dolores Piera marquee.
6.00 PM and 9.00 PM Screening of the film “Stories Not To Be Told” (“Historias para no contar.”) Cultural hall.
6.30 PM “Vila de Benissa” Valencian pilota tournament. Escala i Corda. Grand finals. Ball court.
Thursday 15.12
7.00 PM “Moscatell per Nadal” wine tasting. Les Cases del Batlle.
🗓️Friday, 16.12
5.00 PM to 7.00 PM Pastissets de Nadal” (Christmas pastries) experience visit at the NAVARRO bakery. Appointments open until 1 PM on the day of the visit.
Language: English
7.30 PM Opening of an exhibition of photographs by Miquel Giner. Taller d’Ivars art centre.
8.00 PM Literary presentation: “Juan Bta. Cabrera Ivars: Introducción a la vida and obra de un reformador español del siglo XIX”. Cultural hall.
🗓️Saturday, 17.12
11.00 AM to 1.00 PM Pastissets de Nadal” (Christmas pastries) experience visit at the PADESUCRE bakery. Appointments open until 1 PM on the day of the visit.
Language: Spanish
5.00 PM and 7.15 PM Children’s film screening: “Reyes contra Santa”. Cultural hall.
7.00 PM Christmas concert by the Benissa choir. Taller d’Ivars art centre.
(Schedule to be determined) Mobile disco organised by FPX2023. Paseo Dolores Piera marquee.
🗓️Sunday 18.12
10 AM San Silvestre race. Dolores Piera parking lot.
5.00 PM and 7.15 PM Children’s film screening: “Reyes contra Santa”. Cultural hall.
🗓️Monday 19/12 / Thursday 22.12 at 5.30 PM Christmas parade by the pupils from the “L’Escola Municipal de Música i Dansa Javier Santacreu”
🗓️Wednesday 21.12
10.00 AM Schools’ San Silvestre race.
🗓️23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 December – 2, 3, 4 and 5 January. “Pastís de Moniato” children’s workshops.
🗓️Friday 23.12
10.30 AM to 1.30 PM and from 5.00 PM to 8.00 PM The Christmas train, stopping at Plaça Jaume I and running through the historical town centre.
10.30 AM to 1.30 PM Face painting and Letters to Santa Claus workshop. Plaça Jaume I.
5.00 PM to 8.00 PM Visit from Santa Claus and mischievous elf show. Plaça Jaume I.
🗓️Saturday 24.12
10.30 AM to 1.30 PM The Christmas train, stopping at Plaça Jaume I and running through the historical town centre.
10.30 AM to 1.30 PM Visit from Santa Claus and stilt-walking elf show. Plaça Jaume I.
🗓️Tuesday 27.12
11.00 AM Cooking workshop taught by Encarna Soler (ages 14 through 30). Youth centre.
🗓️Wednesday 28.12
7.00 PM Visit from the Royal Page. Plaça Jaume I.
🗓️Friday 30.12
7.30 PM “Imaginación and emoción entre Brahms and Ravel. Jacobo Christensen, violín and Carlos Apellániz, piano” concert. Taller d’Ivars art centre.
🗓️Monday 2.01
7.00 PM Visit from the Royal Page. Plaça Jaume I.
🗓️Thursday 5.01
6.30 PM Parade by Their Majesties the Three Wise Men of the Orient.
🗓️Friday 6.01
12.00 PM Epiphany mass
00.00 h. Mobile disco organised by FPX2023. Paseo Dolores Piera marquee.
🗓️Saturday 7.01
5.00 PM and 7.15 PM Children’s film screening: “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” (“El gato con botas. El último deseo”). Cultural hall.
🗓️Sunday 8.01
9.00 AM to 2.00 PM Antiques market. Paseo Dolores Piera marquee.
10.00 AM “Quemando el Roscón” sporting event. Plaça Jaume I.
5.00 PM and 7.15 PM Children’s film screening: “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” (“El gato con botas. El último deseo”). Cultural hall.
🗓️Saturday 14.01
7.00 PM and 10.00 PM Film screening: “I wanna dance with somebody”. Cultural hall.
🗓️Sunday 15.01
6.00 PM and 9.00 PM Film screening: “I wanna dance with somebody”. Cultural hall.
🗺️ GUIDED TOURS:
Admission: € 2 per person
Includes: Guided tour through the historical town centre of Benissa, sampling of “Pastissets de Nadal” (Christmas cakes), and the recipe for the same.
📌 Starts from: Plaça Rei Jaume I (fountain). Information and registration: Benissa Tourist Info.
Tel.: 96 573 22 25. WhatsApp: 627 307 511. ✉️turismo@ajbenissa.es
🎨 SCHEDULE FOR THE “Photos of MIQUEL EL BARBER” EXHIBITION. Taller d’Ivars art centre.
Tuesdays through Saturdays from 6 PM to 8.30 PM
Special schedule for Christmas and the Epiphany:
Closed on Saturdays and bank holidays.
Closed on the afternoons of 23, 26, 30 December and 5 January.
🎨 SCHEDULE FOR THE “Caminando con Van Gogh” EXHIBITION. Salvador Soria Contemporary Art Centre (entrance through the Les Cases del Batlle Cultural Space).
Mornings: arranged visits.
Tuesdays through Saturdays, from 6 PM to 8.30 PM
Saturdays from 10 AM to 2 PM
Special schedule for Christmas and the Epiphany:
Closed on Saturdays and bank holidays.
Closed on the afternoons of 23, 26, 30 December and 5 January.
🖼️ SCHEDULE for the Abargues house museum
Wednesdays and Saturdays from 10.00 AM to 2.00 PM
Fridays from 10.00 AM to 2.00 PM and from 5.00 PM to 8.00 PM
Closed on bank holidays.
(Special schedule for Christmas and the Epiphany: closed on the afternoons of 23 and 30 December)
📖 SCHEDULE for the Bernat Capó Public Library
Mondays through Fridays from 9.30 AM to 1.30 PM and from 5.00 PM to 8.30 PM
Closed on bank holidays.
(Special schedule for Christmas and the Epiphany: open from 9.00 AM to 2.00 PM on 23 and 26 December and 5 January, closed on 30 December).