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Mula revolutionizes an Easter that could well detached from the nickname "Santa", because its origin suggests an associated birth to protest excessive religiosity that prevailed from public and religious powers to the common people at certain stages of history.
That is why before the candle wax dripping the steep streets of the town with their passion processions, Mula has heard the distinctive sound of his Easter: "The Night of The Drums".
It is the most unique festival that takes place in Mula along the entire calendar.
The Holy Tuesday at 12 pm, the "Call to Tamborada" marks the moment when the thousands of drummers, gathered in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento and dressed in black robes, they are "allowed" to sound skins their drums.
Uninterruptedly and until 4 pm on Holy Wednesday, the deafening music will silence any hint of sound from whatever source.
On Good Friday since morning and Easter Sunday from noon episode repeats within hours that the Mayor Bando sets and disseminates before the start of Holy Week.
The origin of this unique festival declared of National Tourist Interest, it was far much to pay allegiance to the recollection of Easter reported by the ecclesiastical powers and the bourgeoisie.
The municipal ordinances reflect, at least since the mid-nineteenth century, recommendations for "good behavior" of the inhabitants of the town and express prohibitions of "walking through the streets with drums" if not in processions and with permission of the authority.
It must have been around this time when the usual associated people and reviled by the Church and the upper classes were consolidated.
After the controversial birth drumbeat in Mula, arrived continuing impediments drummers found throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
All these obstacles put in the deafening protest, led by the City Council and the Church, had no consequence that a recalcitrant reaffirmation of the original custom though, that if, always under a continuous and comprehensive municipal control until, with the arrival of the democracy, happens to occupy the place deserved to offer a distinctive character to Mula.
Mula is also a perfect setting for this unique concert percussion.
Its ancient streets and squares are circled by countless mansions, churches, chapels, convents, shields and steep medieval streets.
Not surprisingly since 1981 Mula is declared historic and artistic national.
And there are many interesting places to visit within the city.
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