Within the night of Saturday 13 August, some of the anticipated nights within the Elche festivities calendar takes place, bringing folks from across the complete area and past collectively, for the annual celebration of the Nit de l’Albà.

This 12 months, the night time sky of Elche will gentle up with greater than 40,000 dozen rockets and 1,800 thunder shells wherein the town council has invested 143,094 euro (greater than double what was invested in 2019, the final 12 months wherein the occasion was celebrated).

This competition itself has its origin within the Center Ages, when households supplied a rocket for every of their youngsters. This custom has been modified over time till reaching the festivity that we all know at this time, when tons of of firework palm bushes are launched in a coordinated method from completely different factors of the town.

As well as, there are a lot of folks from Elche who additionally assist gentle up the town that night time by launching their very own fireworks.

The night time culminates a couple of minutes earlier than midnight, when the thunder and lightning of the fireworks immediately cease, the lights exit, the Gloria Patri sounds, the final tune of the Thriller Play of Elx (declared by UNESCO a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity) and from the highest of the bell tower of the Basilica of Santa Maria, the breath-taking Palm of the Virgin emerges, an providing to the patron saint that illuminates the entire metropolis.