I would like being grateful from these lines for the effort of teachers and rectors, but it has always been the tuna who with his picaresque novel, adventurous sense and true talent artistic, has overcome intersections and problems to survive, and to stand firm in the XXIst Century like the most recognized and popular university institution.

The Tuna, a university Bohemian lifestyle, a group of university artists, who take a life full of suggestions, of friends and experiences. He says the "Book of the Good Tunar" that is "school of life, forum of ingenuities, urdidora of daydreams, crucible of new friends and proof of ancient", and this is perhaps the most valuable aspect in the life of the tuno: experiences, friends, loves...

Those who have belonged to a Tuna usually do not forget it. They consider it, and there is usually like that, fundamental in his human formation, turned out of miscellany of University, musician and Bohemian lifestyle; then, the way is. There is a Spanish saying that Miguel de Cervantes gathers: "Three things do the discreet men: letters, age and way".

Initiatives as this Music Festival contribute, undoubtedly, that the tradition continues his way and there are increasingly the murcianos and murcianas that we feel a big fidelity for this culture of the prickly pear. The Tuna of District, like the most ancient of our Region, not only has the fondness but also the support of the institutions, as in this case, of the Institute of the Youth of the Region of Murcia, which he bets and it will keep on doing it, for the promotion of the culture in the young people murcianos.

I hope that the International Contest of Prickly pears should keep on having a good time for some other years more, of the good health of till now.