The flamenco festival with Enrique Morente and the film week with five countries

Estepona was not just a fishing village that became a tourist destination. In 1975 it hosted a major flamenco festival. In 1977, a week of educational cinema with Germany, Canada, the United States and France. The cultural dimension that guidebooks leave out.

1940–19804 min read

Festival flamenco

III Gran Festival de Cante Grande, 12 de abril de 1975

Artistas

Enrique Morente, Manuel Gerena, Parrilla de Jerez

Semana de Cine

I Semana Internacional de Cine Didáctico, febrero 1977

Países participantes

Alemania, Canadá, España, EEUU, Francia

Entrada al cine

Libre

Banda Municipal

Fundada en 1940, una de las mejores de Andalucía

On 12 April 1975, Estepona hosted the III Gran Festival de Cante Grande with Enrique Morente, Manuel Gerena and Parrilla de Jerez. In 1977, the I International Week of Educational Cinema brought five countries together. Two episodes that reveal a town with a cultural life of its own.

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