The Puerto Rican, Carmen Margarita Alicea Mirabal, who resides in Australia, was presented with an award as The Foreign Visitor of the Year for Sanfermin 2004. This innovative award has been jointly created by Kukuxumusu and The Maisonnave Hotel and has been awarded for the first time this year, coinciding with the traditional “Guiri Day” (Foreigner’s Day). The event took place in the Maisonnave Hotel and was attended by some of the members of the foreign peñas who are in Pamplona these days for the fiestas.
The award is seen as a homage to all those many foreign visitors who come to Pamplona for Sanfermines. The plaque was presented to Carmen Alicea by Koldo Aiestaran, one of the founder-members of Kukuxumusu, in the presence of the hotel director, Juan Luis Barber. The award-winner expressed her appreciation for the recognition of her ten years of successive visits to the Sanfermin fiestas. Carmen Alicea has been resident for the past fourteen years in Sidney, Australia but was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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