Museu Alcoia de la Festa

The Museu Alcoia de los angeles Festa MAF en: Museum of the Moors and Christians of Alcoy in Alcoy, Valencian Community, is a museum committed completely to the pageant of the Moors and Christians of Alcoy, in which the traffic can enjoy all the info, elements and emotions surrounding this worldwide pageant. The stately constructing that homes the MAF popularly recognised in Valencian as "Casal de Sant Jordi, has its origins inside the 17th century and turned into owned through the noble households Jorda and Merita, until its acquisition in 1954 by means of the Association of Sant Jordi which rehabilitated it to house its headquarters.

The constructing incorporates semi-basement and three top flooring. The starting place of the Museum lies within the reality that every year all the captains and lieutenants of the Moorish and Christian fila donated their costumes to the Sant Jordi Association, organizer of the pageant of Moors and Christians in Alcoy. This old museum with an in depth series of designs along side many different gadgets changed into within the personal headquarters of the affiliation. It could be in the year 2004 whilst the association decided to create the brand new museum that become opened in 2006.