Moors and Cristians

The Moors and Christians is a typical party fromPaterna.

They represent the battles for the conquest of València.

The 22th they do the ''great moors night'' and that night all the differents costumed groups moors from Paterna parade, either a group of pirates.There is also a costumed captain group (this year was Abbasies), who hires several performances like: bellys dancers group, camels, elephants...

The 23th was the ''great christians night'' where besides the christians groups parade ''els trabuquers'' they carry guns and shot firecrackers with them. This year the captain christian groups was ''Arqueras'' a costumed group consisting only of women, her performances were really

originals like: a couple of little stories, a lot of dances, wizards...