Aug 8, 2025 | Festivities, News
Redován is already gearing up to celebrate its Patron Saint Festivities in honour of the Virgen de la Salud and Saint Michael the Archangel. A programme of festive, cultural and religious events will take place from August 28 to September 30. The mayor and councillor for Festivities, Nely Ruiz Peral, presented all the details of the programme, along with the traditional appointments made each year for the celebration. This year, Antonio Ros Gómez will deliver the opening speech, and Pepe Ruiz Riquelme has been named the Festero de Honor, who will kick off the festivities with the first firecracker. She was accompanied by Adriana Ruiz Gil, a local Art student from Redován and the author of the cover of this year’s festival booklet—the gateway to all the upcoming celebrations.
Rosario Larrosa Avilés has already been proclaimed Queen of the Elderly, while the other titles will be announced during the selection and coronation ceremony of the Queens. The candidates for Children’s Queen are Daniela Martínez Conesa, Paloma Illán Martínez, and Triana Aniorte Moreno. Meanwhile, the young women running to be Queens of the Festivities are Aitana Pérez Muñoz, Elena Bernabeu Miralles, and Inés Jiménez García. Aitana Martínez Martínez, Marco Nájar Ruiz, Carmen Ruiz Martínez, and Ciro Carrizo Marco will participate as pages.
The presentation also included the representatives of the various comparsas and barracas: Ainhoa Garri Sánchez is the 2025 Sultana of the “Sultanas del Rey Ahmed” barraca; María José Plaza Mayans represents the “Al-Khäusil” comparsa as Amira 2025; Ángela Esquiva Hernández is the Templar Standard Bearer of the “Caballeros Templarios” comparsa; Helena Gallud Rufete has been named Pirate Captain 2025 by the “Piratas” comparsa; Adriana Ballester Trigueros will serve as Standard Bearer of the “El Volante” peña; and María Martínez Ferrer is the Moza Mayor 2025 of the “La Gramaera” barraca.
The official start of the festivities will be on Thursday, August 28, with the traditional concert by the Unión Musical de Redován and the 4th Festive Awards Gala, which precedes the selection and coronation of the Queens. The coronation will take place on Friday, August 29, at 10.00 p.m. in Plaza de la Paz. On Saturday morning, August 30, children will enjoy the kids’ chupinazo and a water party, while at 8.00 p.m. the Flower Offering will begin from Plaza Miguel Hernández. One of the most anticipated moments will follow at 9.00 p.m.: the official chupinazo from the Town Hall balcony, marking the festive kickoff with music and a vibrant street atmosphere. On Sunday, August 31, the traditional Grama e Hilado exhibition will be held.
“We’re launching one of the most cherished celebrations for all of us in Redován. These are days in which our town comes alive with excitement, and we’ve prepared a programme with great care to make every neighbour and visitor feel part of this celebration,” stated Nely Ruiz.
On Wednesday, September 3, the barracas will open. The festivities will continue on Thursday, September 4, with the popular tapas pub crawl accompanied by a marching band (charanga), and on Saturday, September 6, the General Parade will take place, preceded by a gathering of bands and festeros in Plaza de la Paz. The parade will start at 9.00 p.m. Another key moment will come on Monday, September 8, with the solemn mass and procession in honour of the Virgen de la Salud, the town’s patron saint, beginning at 8.30 p.m. The traditional vaquilla evenings on September 9, 10, and 11 will once again fill the bullring with excitement and tradition starting at 9.00 p.m.
The second half of September will be marked by music and entertainment. On Friday, September 12, the traditional Dance Gala will take place, organised by the Redován Dance Association, and on Saturday, September 13, the White Party will feature a live concert by Los Happys. Registration for this event will be open from September 2 to 12. The highly anticipated Multicolour Parade, a favourite among peñas and comparsas, will take place on Saturday, September 20, followed by a big DJ party in Plaza Miguel Hernández. The weekend will close with the Classic Motorcycle event by Asociación La Carbonilla on Sunday, September 21.
Redován’s festivities will continue into the following week. On Friday, September 26, the show “Hola Rafaela” will be held in Plaza de la Paz at 10.00 p.m. On Saturday, September 27, live music returns with a concert by La Hornet and DJ Jesús Rodríguez. On Sunday, September 28, the themed concert in honour of Saint Michael by Unión Musical de Redován will take place at 8.30 p.m. also in Plaza de la Paz. Finally, on Monday, September 29, the feast day of Saint Michael the Archangel and the town’s patron saint, religious events will be held in his honour, followed by a fireworks display as the grand finale. The procession will begin at 8.30 p.m.
“We want everyone to find their space in these celebrations, to share joyful moments, and to strengthen our pride in being part of Redován. We encourage everyone to participate with respect, joy, and responsibility,” concluded Nely Ruiz.
Apr 25, 2025 | Councils News, Education, Employment and training, Events, Festivities, Municipal Services, Infraestructures, parks and gardens, News, Redovan, Social Welfare, Women and Seniors, Sports
Redován Town Council today presented RedApp, a new free messaging service via WhatsApp that will allow all citizens to be informed, in real time, of municipal news: announcements, edicts, cultural agenda, activities, emergencies, power or water cuts, subsidies, grants and much more.
RedApp is configured as a unidirectional channel, that is, only for sending information, avoiding saturation and ensuring an orderly and clear flow of messages. Communications will be carried out via mailing lists – not groups – in compliance with European data protection regulations.
During the presentation, the first deputy mayor and councillor for Transparency and Good Governance, José Najar, stressed that ‘with RedApp we are taking another step forward in our commitment to transparency and good governance. We are committed to an administration that is open, close and connected to its neighbours, that listens and communicates clearly’.
How does RedApp work? The system is very simple: the user saves the number 652 101 700 in their address book, then they send a message via WhatsApp with the word ALTA and once they receive a welcome message, from then on they will start to receive the most relevant information about the municipality).
The communications will be active every day of the week between 8:00 and 22:00 hours, and it should be noted that it will also be a tool for communication in cases of emergency.
The Town Hall guarantees compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (RGPD) and reminds that registration and cancellation of the service can be done easily by sending a message with the word ALTA or BAJA to the same number.
Oct 16, 2024 | News, Traffic, Security and Emergencies
The mayor of Redován, Nely Ruiz Peral, and the councilor for Public Safety, Marisol Ibáñez Mazón, signed an agreement today with meteorologist and geographer Pedro Gómez Cascales, the author of the MeteOrihuela project, to include the municipality in the regional weather network he has launched. This will be done through the installation of a weather station on the roof of the Pasitos Nursery School.
This agreement includes a series of services that will benefit the municipality of Redován, which the mayor outlined: “for example, monitoring and, if necessary, early warning of adverse weather events that could affect our population.” Nely Ruiz added that the City Council “will also receive meteorological advice when necessary, especially for outdoor events such as the Patronal Festivals, Easter Week, Carnival, or other parades whose execution depends on good weather.” Meanwhile, the councilor for Public Safety, Marisol Ibáñez, emphasized that this is an “important service for Redován, as it will include the preparation of expert meteorological reports on specific events such as strong wind gusts, torrential rains, or hail that may cause damage to private property. Residents will be able to request the preparation of such documents from the City Council.”
The person in charge of the installation, Pedro Gómez, commented that anyone will be able to check real-time weather conditions in the municipality on the City Council’s website (https://www.redovan.es/). He also added that “these records will be included in the best regional, national, and international meteorological networks, placing Redován on the map of meteorological observations.” The author of the MeteOrihuela project also mentioned that these records will be useful for organizations such as the National Meteorological Agency or television weather segments.
The new weather station measures variables in real-time, such as temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind speed and direction, and precipitation intensity and accumulation. Based on this data, it also provides regional records of dew point, heat index, wind chill, and evapotranspiration.
Jul 12, 2024 | Finances, News
The spokesman for the Redován Town Council government team and councillor for Finance, José Nájar, appeared today to give an account of the report carried out by the Sindicatura de Cuentas (Audit Office) to the Consistory of Redován, which aims to improve the internal processes of municipal management. Nájar explained that every year the Audit Office randomly selects a series of municipalities to analyse them and highlight areas for improvement, making a series of recommendations which it subsequently verifies whether they are implemented. Nájar added that Redován has been the subject of this audit, as have other municipalities such as Torrent and Alzira, where the operation during 2022 of the Contracting area has been reviewed, as well as different aspects of economic and financial management of the general account for that year.
“The intention is to audit in order to improve, through this report, the internal processes of municipal management,” said the councillor, who stated that “at no time does the report, in its 81 pages, cite the word ‘irregular’ even once. In fact, the Sindicatura, in addition to proposing various improvements and recommendations on procurement, concludes, on page 7, that the contractual activity carried out by the Redován Town Council during the year 2022 is in accordance. The councillor for the Treasury has given an account “as a sign of commitment and transparency” of the recommendations made by the Audit Office, for example, that measures are taken to avoid submitting some processes after the deadline “knowing that there is no harm to the Town Hall itself or to the people of Redovan, and understanding the usual workload”. Thus, he rejected the use of this report to cast doubt on the work of transparency carried out by the municipal government “when in fact, the report itself, on page 42, indicates that the City Council has a Transparency Portal that has been found to be adequate to the obligations of article 20 of Law 1/2022 on Transparency and Good Governance”.
Likewise, the report recommends updating contracting formulas to improve the awarding process, without any irregularities in this regard, “so it is clear that the Redován Town Council complies with the Law of Transparency and Good Governance, while the contracting is in accordance with the Law”. To conclude, José Nájar, has been forceful and has assured “that there are no irregularities, lack of transparency or mismanagement or serious deficiencies in recruitment and therefore from the government team we are opposed to any information in this regard that calls into question the work of the staff of the Consistory itself”.
Jun 12, 2024 | Culture, Events, News
The Twinning Committee of Redován with the French municipality of Saint Aubin de Mèdoc has carried out a new cultural exchange with a visit to the municipality, invited to attend the ‘Noctambules’, an important music festival held in the French town. Both towns have established an annual visit to strengthen ties, and if last year it was the French who travelled to Redován to see the local festivities, this time it was the turn of the people of Redován to travel on an expedition which also visited the towns of Soulac invited by its mayor, to whom they presented a figure of the Griffin de Redován and Bordeaux, the latter for the inauguration of the tram which links it with Saint Aubin and where they also spoke with the town’s mayor. Councillor Ramón López Escarabajal, as municipal representative on the Twinning Committee, presented the mayor of Saint Aubin de Mèdoc with the gold badge of the Redován Town Council, a gesture that was reciprocated as the mayor, Christophe Duprat, also presented the badge of his municipality which is already displayed in the Mayor’s office of the Redován Town Council
A cutting of the fig tree from Miguel Hernandez’s house in Orihuela also travelled to France, a cutting given by the city of Orihuela ‘after the mayor learned that during last year’s visit they were delighted with this space,’ said Lopez. Along with the cutting, which was planted in a green area of Saint Aubin, the former mayor of Redován and member of the Twinning Committee, Emilio Fernández, also presented the French mayor with a book of poems by Miguel Hernández in French and Spanish. During the visit, which took place between 1 and 4 June, the Redován Twinning Committee had the opportunity to visit vineyards and a winery to discover how the famous French wine from the Bordeaux region is made. Ramón López has indicated that both municipalities are already working for the next meeting, which will be in Redován and for which they want to have the presence of music students from Saint Aubin de Mèdoc as they did two years ago from the Unión Musical de Redován, who took their music to the French town.
May 17, 2024 | Environment, News
Redován is celebrating World Recycling Day today with an action aimed at increasing the selective collection of light packaging, i.e. all those that should be deposited in the yellow container such as milk and juice cartons, food and drink cans, plastic containers, etc. The municipality participates, as part of the Vega Baja Sostenible Consortium, in ‘El Reto del Reciclaje’, a competition between the municipalities of the region, which will be won by the locality that recycles the most packaging. The councillor for the Environment, Ramón López Escarabajal, has encouraged the entire population to participate and, with this, help the Association El Árbol de los Sueños which helps people with functional diversity, to which, in case of winning, the prize will be destined. The Recycling Challenge is promoted by Ecoembes and the Regional Ministry for the Environment, Water, Infrastructures and Territory in collaboration with the Vega Baja Sustainable Consortium, and aims to involve citizens in the selective collection and recycling of waste and raise awareness of the problem of not doing so for the environment and for our future as a society
The action taking place this morning in the Plaza Miguel Hernández in Redován, coinciding with the street market, raises awareness of the need to separate waste at home so that it can be disposed of correctly. “In the tent installed all the information and a small gift is given to people who come, so that in this way they remember when they are at home that they have to throw each waste in a bag and then to their corresponding container, the yellow container packaging, paper and cardboard to the blue, and organic waste to the gray,” recalled the councillor for the Environment.
The councillor also informed that, in addition, every Wednesday the mobile ecopark of the Vega Baja Sostenible Consortium visits Redován, where other waste which should not be disposed of in the containers found in the streets of Redován can also be thrown away. “In this case, in the ecopark you can also take kitchen utensils that you no longer use, small electrical appliances, light bulbs, used cooking oil and other waste that if you throw them in the grey bin they would cause irreparable environmental damage”. He encouraged the public to recycle and make Redován a more sustainable municipality.
