Popular Traditions - Garganta de los Montes

The culture that has been developed throughout its seven centuries of history has come conditional as much by the physical surroundings of the mountain range, like by the religious tradition: the passage by the town of San Farm Isidro and the miracles attributed as much to this one as to the Virgin of Our Lady of the Meadows.

May: It is celebrated each 30 of April with a celebration in which the young people place a tree cut in the place of the town known like “May”.

Supervisory celebrations of San Isidro: The 15 of May are celebrated. It counts the legend that San Isidro was in Throat to do works following one another a series of miracles. The celebration maintains still its form original: a misa and a procession in which the image leaves the church in two yuntas with cows, while the neighbors throw wheat. The gladdest part comes later, when the branches of flowers, yuntas, the tapes and the spiral of San Isidro are auctioned, and distributes cheese and came. In addition sport activities are organized and a dance.

The Altars and the Altareras: The day of Corpus Christi is celebrated in the month of June. It responds to the old tradition carried out by the women in whom altars in different places from the town are placed and engalanan, where soon they will be become the shutdowns religious of Corpus Christi. Testimony of this tradition is the sculpture of the Altarera.

Romería of Our Lady of the Meadows: The Sunday next to the day of San Pedro is celebrated. During this celebration, the Employer leaves to shoulders of the neighbors of the town, transferring it until the hermitage located to two kilometers, accompanied with music by dulzainas and drums. There a misa of rosemaries is celebrated and after this, in the prairie that surrounds the hermitage, dances of Js and a traditional food of small boiler garganteña. The Employer remains in the hermitage all the summer, until the month of October.

Supervisory celebrations of Ntra. Mrs of the Meadows: The first weekend of October is celebrated, of Friday to Monday. Friday a misa in honor to the Virgin is made and soon the stature of the Employer is transferred from the hermitage to the town, in procession. On the following day it is made the traditional auction of branches and twigs. Besides the branches, fruits, doughnuts were auctioned and until some piglet. In the evening, after the religious celebration, games and other activities are organized; and at night all the neighbors meet in the dance.

Day of the Garganteña woman: Like prolongation to the celebrations in honor to the Employer, later Monday the Day of the Garganteña Woman is celebrated, in whom it appoints a godmother who represents all the women of the town until the next celebrations. Dances, games are organized and also a small boiler is prepared to eat during the day.

To run the Hornazo: This festival is celebrated during the Easter in the well-known one like Procesión of Encuentro. From places different from the town they leave in procession the images the Revived Christ and accompanied by the women, the one of the Virgin, being in a point in which both images, after three inclinations, make a “hug”. To the Virgin one undresses to him of its black mantle so that its gold embroidering is at sight, ring the bells and one ends songs in honor to the encounter between Jesus and his Mother. After the religious rite hornazo comes “”: a great tea in that they are prepared and tortillas, cutlets and torreznos eat accompanied by a good wine.

Supervisory celebrations of Ntra Lady of the Pillar: It is celebrated each 12 of October is celebrated each 12 of October in honor to the Virgin of the Pillar, employer of the Cuadrón. The celebrations extend during three days: the day 10, in which already there is a dance at night in the place; the day 11, in that they are celebrated a morning call floreada by the popular streets of the Cuadrón and several games, between that emphasizes the one to thread needles. One is a competition in which the participants must thread the greater number of needles of different sizes in a minute. Finally, the great day is the 12 of October, when it is celebrated the misa, the procession and the typical auction of branches and twigs. The religious celebration it follows the distribution of buns, drain and small boiler to him.