Deckers Palma – 2016

Well here we are into 2016, what a fabulous New Year we have welcomed in and here in Deckers Palma we hope that you also had a wonderful Christmas and New Year celebrating with family and friends wherever you are in the world. However, before we all hit the new diet resolutions and no drinking we still have one more event to go, The Three Kings.

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For Mallorcan children, excitement arrives again on the 5th of January, when an old custom is followed whereby Mallorca´s little ones place a shoe filled with hay and a list of wishes, and often a water-filled jug on the window sill. Thus the camels passing the house get something to eat and in return, the kings leave gifts.

 

Visible to all is the highly-anticipated arrival of the three kings, as their ship sails into the port of Palma, opposite the former maritime trade exchange “La Llotja”. Accompanied by fireworks and music, they are greeted by 400 entertainers and over twenty floats. After these men from the Orient have changed into their capes and harem pants and their crowns are properly in place, they mount their camels and the procession begins, as legend states, from their landing place along the “Passeig Sagrera ‘,” the Jaume II ‘; and the “Born”, to the Placa de Cort ‘, the town hall square. On their way they throw “caramelos ¨ (lots of sweets) into the thrilled crowed, which can also leave bruises beware!!

 

Adults tend to exchange gifts at Christmas, while the 6th of January remains exclusively reserved for children who are the “kings” of the Spanish families. This is also the reason why the child who finds the coin or bean baked into the Three Kings Cake, which is baked in the shape of a crown, is allowed to wear the golden paper crown and be ¨king for the day”. This dates back to a pre-Christian custom which was celebrated at the turn of the year. The person who found the bean or the piece of metal was granted good luck for the next year.

 

Adults are not left empty-handed on Three Kings day for, traditionally, the play titled “Warship of the Kings” is staged below the cathedral and is a great source of amusement to older audiences. Over the years the play has developed into a cabaret-style event and personalities of public life act as Biblical figures, who perform funny, ironic and sometimes sarcastic exchanges over current political and social topics.

We will be joining in all of the Spanish festivities and we hope we will see lots of you out and about over Palma and then we can all finally settle into the coming season and hit the diets so we can all get back into our uniforms!! Be sure to give us a shout with your requirements for 2016 on info@uniforms4yachts.com, wishing you all the best for 2016!

 

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