Post by account_disabled on Mar 4, 2024 3:30:38 GMT -5
There is a place in Almería where they do know how to celebrate things, no matter how far away they happen. That place is Níjar and it has many centuries of history, since there is evidence of human presence in the area from about 10,000 years ago . That's 100 centuries, no less. And perhaps it is all that accumulated history that has led the people of Nijar to that group intelligence that made them celebrate things when they needed to be celebrated. Because worse times would come and we must take advantage. Of course, it seems things got a little out of hand . Of those 100 centuries of history, let's stop at the 18th century, where a twist of fate made Charles III king of Spain. His father, Philip V, the first Bourbon to occupy the Spanish throne, ceded the reign to his son Louis I in 1724. This poor boy reigned for less than a year, 229 days to be exact, since smallpox took him almost before start to get a taste for it.
His father then had to return to the throne, and father and son thus created records. The first ended up having the longest reign in our history (45 years) and the second, however, the shortest. Carlos III came to BTC Users Number Data the Spanish throne after several unexpected events Charles III Statue of Charles III in Madrid. Carlos Delgado After the death of Philip V, his son Ferdinand VI reigned and when he died without issue, the turn came to Charles III, son of Philip V and half-brother of the other two. This twist of fate caught the future Charles III as king of Naples and Sicily. The proclamation of Carlos III as king of Spain was quite an event . And his journey from Naples to the end of the celebrations, already in 1760, in Madrid, was an excess, as was typical of that time where the king was everything.
In September 1759, the proclamation of the new king was celebrated throughout Spain. What's more, as I said, after the proclamation, his arrival in Spain was prepared well in advance, and in Barcelona and Madrid, tributes, parades, and temporary decorations were held in the streets... And in the towns along the way, too. But in Níjar, which is in Almería and was far from the royal route, such a party was held for the event, which has been recorded as a milestone and is a reference as a celebration that ended up going too far. Following the chronicle that Manuel Dávila y Collado collects in his book about the reign of Carlos III, it seems that the mayor gathered the neighbors in the square and placed himself in the middle of everyone. After they gathered around to listen to him and without much further ado, he raised his staff of command and said: do you believe that God is God, and do you believe that Charles III, who is the brother of our late king, who is in Italy? Is he our monarch? The answer was a resounding yes, a celebratory salvo of gunshots into the air and a ringing of bells. That was the beginning.
His father then had to return to the throne, and father and son thus created records. The first ended up having the longest reign in our history (45 years) and the second, however, the shortest. Carlos III came to BTC Users Number Data the Spanish throne after several unexpected events Charles III Statue of Charles III in Madrid. Carlos Delgado After the death of Philip V, his son Ferdinand VI reigned and when he died without issue, the turn came to Charles III, son of Philip V and half-brother of the other two. This twist of fate caught the future Charles III as king of Naples and Sicily. The proclamation of Carlos III as king of Spain was quite an event . And his journey from Naples to the end of the celebrations, already in 1760, in Madrid, was an excess, as was typical of that time where the king was everything.
In September 1759, the proclamation of the new king was celebrated throughout Spain. What's more, as I said, after the proclamation, his arrival in Spain was prepared well in advance, and in Barcelona and Madrid, tributes, parades, and temporary decorations were held in the streets... And in the towns along the way, too. But in Níjar, which is in Almería and was far from the royal route, such a party was held for the event, which has been recorded as a milestone and is a reference as a celebration that ended up going too far. Following the chronicle that Manuel Dávila y Collado collects in his book about the reign of Carlos III, it seems that the mayor gathered the neighbors in the square and placed himself in the middle of everyone. After they gathered around to listen to him and without much further ado, he raised his staff of command and said: do you believe that God is God, and do you believe that Charles III, who is the brother of our late king, who is in Italy? Is he our monarch? The answer was a resounding yes, a celebratory salvo of gunshots into the air and a ringing of bells. That was the beginning.