Tomorrow, Saturday 1st July, the 2023 Fiestas Commission will celebrate the election and proclamation of the Calp Fiestas Queen and the Children's Queen in the Plaza Mayor. This event, which will start at 21:30 hours, is one of the most important events organised by the Fiestas Commission as it is the presentation of the whole Commission.
34 young women from Calpe aged 18 will compete for the title of Queen of the Fiestas, the highest female representative of the fiestas, and the same event will be used to elect the children's queen from among the 29 eight-year-old ladies. All the candidates will be accompanied by children and young people from the 2015 and 2005 quintas who form part of the Festivities Commission and by the festeros and festeras of the 1985 year of birth who complete the commission presided over by Aroa Pineda.
The election of the Queens will take place, as in previous years, by drawing lots before a notary in a gala that will be the official presentation of the Festivities Commission and will also serve to bid farewell to the Queens of the 2022 Festivities. As tradition dictates, the queens of the previous year, Carmen Ryan and Sofía Sánchez, will be in charge of drawing the names of the new queens, which will be read out once the courts of honour are present on stage.
The event will be held in the Plaza Mayor, where a large walkway will be set up to the stage and 1800 chairs will be set up. The 2023 Festivities Commission, in charge of organising the patron saint fiestas to be held in August, has already carried out other events within the programme for this year, such as the organisation of the Three Kings Cavalcade and the Easter Week events.