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Boats of the moorish landing

Boats of the moorish landing

The boats are, for a few hours, the “main character” of the greatest event of La Vila Joiosa Moors and Christians, the Landing, in the early hours of July 28th. For a few hours all eyes, lights and cameras focus on them, but when the Moors reache the desired land, and the sun is up, they become invisible, disappear from the scene and return to their “backstage”where they can be quiet and wait for their next appointment.

They are the boats of the Moorish Landing, the Saracen boats, on board of which the Moors arrive on the shores of La Vila coast at this dawn of fiesta and spectacle.

These boats are designed with the colours of the different festive companies and during the year, except for the week of 24th to 28th July, they are kept in two enclosures where it is possible to visit them.

Along with the boats it is also possible to find pictures and descriptions of what happens in La Vila Joiosa that magical dawn. That night without rest in which the central beach becomes a Christian camp where the troops await the arrival of the 'enemy'. Those hours in which hundreds of festeros 'sail' towards the desired land. That moment in which we recall the historical event that gives rise to our festivities: the attempted Berber attack which, thanks to Santa Marta´s intervention, did not succeed.