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In mid-January. Xàbia collected the “maleta didáctica”of the MACMA so that the schools can work the traditions of the Marina Alta The “maleta didáctica”of the MACMA The first piece of this project pertains to the popular festival of Sant Antoni The Cultural Mancomunitat de la Marina Alta (MACMA) has today delivered to the Councilor for Culture of Xàbia, Quico Moragues, the first “didactic suitcase” that they have prepared to recover and spread traditions, festivities and activities more deeply rooted in Valencian popular culture, especially in the region. The first of these suitcases is for the festival of Sant Antoni, one of the oldest in our history and strongly linked to the agrarian world that is becoming a great unknown to the youngest. The MACMA technique responsible for the project, Núria Gómez Bolufer, has explained to the mayor all the