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San Juan bonfires history

The etiquette of Las Meigas

From the first years of the Promotion Commission, one of the main concerns was to adapt the label of the [...]

THE FIRST ALLEGORIC FIREPLACE

Perhaps it was in one of those meetings held, in the classrooms of the Colegio de la Compañía de María, [...]

Las Meigas and the procession of the Santísimo Cristo del Consuelo

As has already been pointed out on a previous occasion, it was in 1994, when we celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary [...]

HOUSEHOLD PRIZE-2016

Authorities, representations, representatives of the Association of Meigas de las Hogueras de San Juan, Meiga Mayor, Director and Members of [...]

OUR DEAR CAMP

  A pompous name that we gave, back in the early 60s, to a small space, between tall bushes, on [...]

PRICE OF THE FIREPLACES 2019

Take me with you Meiga, magician friend of my dreams, to the aquamarine night of the San Juan of my [...]

The Tribute to Mrs. Emilia Pardo Bazán

In 2002, on the occasion of the celebration of the central Acts of those HOGUERAS, the Board of Directors of [...]

1995. The modification of the election system of the Meiga Mayor.

The year 1995 was another of those years that acquired a special meaning in the Bonfires Promoting Commission since in [...]

“The reason for moving the Bonfire to the Riazor beach”

Throughout the long history of our Promoting Commission -more than forty-six years and almost fifty-five burning Bonfires on the night [...]

The exchange with Dénia

It was at the beginning of 2001, when, by chance, I met Marifran Bordes, a native of Diane and a [...]

The accrediting bands of the meigas

The most characteristic external sign by which the Meigas de las Hogueras de San Juan are identified is their accrediting [...]

The “Cardos” of the Bonfires of San Juan

One of the initial objectives of the Promoting Commission of the Bonfires of San Juan, when it began its journey [...]

The Bonfires of San Juan award system

We understand by award system the set of titles, distinctions and prizes available to an Entity to recognize the merits [...]

THE BONFIRES-85

“The girls of the gang did not like that we were going to steal wood for the Night of San [...]

THE HOGUERAS-87

One more year the festivities of the Bonfires of San Juan attended their inexcusable appointment with the city. From May [...]

The XXVIII Feast of the Poetic Aquelarre

On May 27, 1998, at eight thirty in the afternoon, the XXVIII Poetic Coven Festival took place at the Rosalía [...]

THE BONFIRE-75

The deep voice of that magnificent writer from the north coast, called Francisco de Ramón y Ballesteros, resounded that afternoon, [...]

THE BONFIRES-74

The arrival at the mayoralty of La Coruña, in February of that year, of Jaime Hervada Fernández Spain, would be [...]

The San Juan awards

In 1988, the Promoting Commission experienced profound changes. The incorporation of the so-called Advisory Board, with important personalities in the [...]

Las Meigas in the San Roque de Betanzos

Las Meigas in the San Roque de Betanzos The < / span> HOGUERAS-88 , did not end with the end [...]

THE BONFIRES-88

1988, was another year of great changes in the FIREWORKS  , a year in which, on the one hand, new [...]

Information days for the Meigas

The gradual and constant incorporation of the Meigas, both older and children, not only to a greater number of acts [...]

OFFER TO OUR LADY OF LONELINESS

Shortly after linking the Meigas with the Brotherhood of Our Lady of Solitude and the Holy Burial accompanying the image [...]

THE ACT OF PRESENTATION OF THE OFFICIAL GALA SUITS

Currently, the first official act attended by the Meigas in the HOGUERAS program is the one that serves to present [...]

THE COMMEMORATIVE MASS AND THE ACT IN MEMORY

The current programming of HOGUERAS includes as a first religious act the so-called Memorial Mass that serves, every year, to [...]

The Meigas in the Voting Function

For some years and until the infamous arrival at the Town Hall of the spiteful sectarians of the tide that, [...]

Santa Misa Ofrenda a San Juan

Es el acto religioso más importante de todos los que se celebran anualmente dentro del programa HOGUERAS . Clasificado como [...]

The tribute to Brigadier D. Diego del Barco

The act of most recent addition to the set of activities that take place in the morning of June 23 [...]

RAGREEMENTS OF REMOTE NIGHTS OF BONFIRE

Today is the night of June, the night of Vespers of San Juan, on the eve of bonfires; Maybe that’s [...]

What they have stolen from us

In this month of May we are playing the future of La Coruña and we will have to decide if [...]

The homage to King D. Alfonso IX

When the eighth centenary of the concession was celebrated in the city in 2008, by S.M. the King D. Alfonso [...]

The Hail to Our Lady of the Rosary

It was in 1991 when it began to be held, each morning of June 23, this act considered 1st category [...]