Changes in the Districts and Sectors of Alicante's Hogueras

The expansion of the city of Alicante is booming, and the Hogueras are aware of it. The Federation has announced the restructuring of sectors and districts to implement a new delineation of neighbourhoods and streets where different fogueres commissions can coexist.

The governing body of Alicante's Hogueras will begin its schedule of meetings in the coming weeks with various festive associations to reorganise the current division that encompasses 91 bonfires and more than fifty barracas.

These new changes, currently being managed, will allow for "improving daily operations" so that it becomes more effective when creating new bonfires or redesigning the boundaries of each sector, which may affect a possible transfer and redistribution of streets in different districts.

The president of the Federació de Sant Joan, David Olivares, is clear that this initiative will be a topic of discussion, hence "we want to review each and every one of the districts to make the necessary changes".

The potential changes will be worked on in consensus with the affected commissions through various meetings, as "in some cases there are dead zones that no one knows who they belong to", such as those bonfires whose planting spaces are nearby.

Other changes will be applied to newly created spaces, which "need to be delimited". These focus on the new neighbourhoods of Alicante, such as Pau 5 in the San Juan beach area where the Remigio Soler bonfire has already been installed or the future Garbinet-Las Lomas or Vistahermosa.

The Federació de les Fogueres de Sant Joan also points out that these meetings will serve to analyse possible changes in the current distribution of sectors, as many bonfires are grouped in the same cluster despite their long distance, such as the case of the sixth with the beach area that stretches from the Port to Pau 5, including the Avenida de Dénia.

"After several years of operation, some changes need to be put on the table that might be beneficial", pointed out the president of the Federació de les Fogueres de Sant Joan, David Olivares.