More than 200 people will participate in the historical recreation that pays tribute to Salvador Manzanares and Pedro Manrique.

The association ‘Manzanares Estepona 1831’ will celebrate during this week several events to remember the role played by both liberals in the defense of constitutionalist and democratic values.

The councilor attached to the delegation of Citizen Participation, Maria Aguilar; the historian of the Association Manzanares Estepona 1831, Jose Maria Guerrero; and the actor and herald of the event, Miguel Lopez, today presented the program organized to celebrate the eighth edition of the Tribute to Salvador Manzanares and Pedro Manrique, to be held from 6 to 9 March in our city.

The events will begin on Thursday, March 6, from 18.00 hours in the auditorium of the Centro Cultural Padre Manuel, where the actor Miguel Lopez Esteponero offer a prologue-monologue ‘I, Salvador Manzanares’ under the direction of Luque, director of the Municipal Theatre Group ‘La Farándula’.

Also on Friday, March 7, there will be a symposium on the figure of Manzanares, politician and military constitutionalist, defender of civil rights and the first Spanish democracy. It will be at 6.30 p.m. in the library of the Padre Manuel Cultural Center.

The program will continue on Saturday, March 8, at 12.00 p.m. with the commemorative act to the memory of Manzanares, in the Historical Cemetery of Estepona, specifically in the monument to the liberals, where the remains of this hero of democracy and 17 of his men rest.

The finishing touch to this tribute will be the Historical Recreation and the Romantic-Liberal period parade in which will participate more than two hundred people dressed in the style of 1831, representing 15 Andalusian cultural associations.

The procession will depart at 10.30 am from the Botanical-Orchidarium Park, will continue along Terraza Street, Plaza del Reloj where the main events will take place, Santa Ana Street, Real Street, the mouth of Arroyo La Cala, where the occupation of the beach will take place, ending at the Historic Cemetery of Estepona.

In turn, will pay tribute to the young Estepona Pedro Manrique, a cultured man and widely aware of the values of citizenship, died in Malaga in 1831, along with General José María de Torrijos. It will be in Santa Ana Street, at the door of the house where he was born around 12.45 pm.