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The popular phrase "day 4" refers to the eve of the Moors and Christians of Villena.

Until the sixties, the holidays began on September 5 in the morning with the Pasodoble party, and it was in that decade when the party proclamation was added. Therefore, on the 9th, after saying goodbye to the Virgin in the morning and celebrating the entry of new captains and Ensign; And the exchange of bands, in the afternoon, people popularly said "day 4," expressing their desire that the holidays begin again that same day, that is, that either they end.

They contrast the joy of day 4, that is, on the eve of the holidays, to the sadness of day 9, since the latter was for the festions the saddest day of the year. In the sixties, the concert of day 4 began to be held, and in 1970, the newly created central party board instituted the so -called "Tribute dinner to the woman", so that day 4 it became the first day of the holidays.

After dinner and concert, the fireworks castle was fired from the station. The popular phrase served to call the monthly bulletin that began editing the Central Board from its creation in 1971.

In 1984, the same Central Board also began editing an extraordinary number of September, which has become the magazine of festivities par excellence of our city.

Its beginnings were humble, but soon it was expanding its contents and little by little it became a real party magazine with three or four hundred pages and a richness and variety of content that cover all aspects of the Villene festivals, of its comparsas, its squads, the Central Board, the Board of the Virgin, the music bands and the collaboration of many authors with their research articles or FESTER.

It is the fiesta magazine with the most thrown as many are edited in the festive field, with 3,500 copies, although in the past decades they were printed up to 7,000.

The popular phrase "Day 4", has also been used as a title of a pasodoble composed of Alberto Pardo Caturla and with lyrics by Francisco Hernández Hurtado, which the music bands of the Comparsa of New Moors, interpret every year in the Plaza de Santiago on September 9 with all the festions of that troupe parading around the square.

It serves as the end of the party of the Comparsa of New Moors, in the absence only of the exchange of bands and the award, on the balconies of the Festor's house, in the same Plaza de Santiago.