[Gocamino] closing of the Xacobean Year

[jim allen]

Hola Rosina;
Thanks for all your messages.  If you can tell us the approximate hour of
the fireworks display on Dec 17 we might be able to see them on the webcams
from Santiago.

Buen Camino
Jim Allen, Seminole, Fl
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Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2004 8:02 PM
Subject: [Gocamino] closing of the Xacobean Year


> Hello you all,
> Tomorrow's Santiago newspapers report that eleven TONS of gunpowder and
more
> than twenty-five thousand fireworks units will commence to say good-bye to
the
> present Xacobean Year next Friday, the 17th, on the four squares
surrounding
> the Santiago Cathedral.
> This is expected to be the largest fireworks spectacle,  ever, in Europe.
> I do not know why it will take place two weeks before the end of the year,
> but I do know that there are a zillion other commemorative events before
> December 31st.
> The next Holy Xacobean Year will be six years hence, in the year 2010, and
> there will not be another one until 2021, seventeen years from now..
> Best regards,
> Rosina
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