The Councillor for Popular Traditions, Sandra Jimena, has thanked visitors and residents for the ‘massive turnout’ for the San Isidro Romería. And it was massive when you consider that over 150 horse riders and 100 horse carriages and decked out vehicles, as well as seven ox-drawn carts took part.

Hundreds of people, mostly foreigners, lined the old N-340 to watch the procession on its way to the Cuevas de Nerja.

As far as prizes go, the 200-euro, First Prize was for the decked-out, Ox-drawn cart, Blanco y Colorao (White and Red). The 150-euro, Second Prize went to the Cofradía de Jesús Resucitado for their cart and the 125-euro, 3rd Prize went to the Asociación de Romeros y Romeras Pro-San Isidro 2012. Lastly in this category, the 100-euro, 4th Prize went to Academia de Baile de Elena.

As for the motorized vehicles, whose prizes were for the same amounts, 1st Prize went to Los amigos, 2nd Prize to Nuestro Barrio, 3rd Prize to Peña Romeros de Nerja and the 4th to Peña Flamenca La Soleá

Horse-drawn carriages and carts, again, received the same respective prize monies: 1st Prize was won by Javier Manzano, 2nd by Miguel Moyano, 3rd by Carlos Escobar and 4th by José Raya.

Lastly, the horse riders prizes were divided between single rider and groups of riders but it’s going to bore everybody’s pants off if we list each with their individual prize monies, so we’ll just list the names of the winners: Antonio Martín Ramírez, Fernando del Corral, Javier Pozo and Raquel Guerrero in that order, and then in the groups category, Antonio Rojas, Francisco Muñoz, Aurelio Novo and Luis Herrero.

(News: Nerja, Axarquía, Costa del Sol, Malaga, Andalucia)