At the Hogueras de San Juan in Alicante, which element is the main axis around which the whole festival takes place?
Sources: 1 link, read on 22 October 2026.
Ministerio de Cultura, Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial: Fogueres de Sant Joan, read on 22 October 2026.
Answer: The bonfires, ephemeral artistic monuments. The Ministry of Culture explains that each comisión (committee) puts up these monuments in the street and that fireworks are used to set them alight.
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The question in Spanish
En las Hogueras de San Juan de Alicante, ¿qué elemento es el eje principal en torno al cual se desarrolla toda la fiesta?
The options
- AThe bonfires, ephemeral artistic monumentsLas hogueras, monumentos artísticos efímerosCorrect
- BThe Holy Week processionsLas procesiones de Semana Santa
- CThe paella competitionsLos concursos de paella
What the source says
«La hoguera, como monumento artístico efímero, es el eje principal en torno al cual se desarrolla toda la fiesta.»
Source: Ministerio de Cultura, Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial: Fogueres de Sant Joan, read on 22 October 2026. The quotation is in Spanish, as the source prints it; the English wording of the answer is ours.
About number 4006
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