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Romería de El Rocío

Almonte, El Condado, Huelva

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Romería de El Rocío

Curiosity · Almonte, El Condado, Huelva

Annual pilgrimage (romería) to the hamlet of El Rocío, whose first shrine was ordered built by Alfonso X in 1270; the Virgin was proclaimed patroness of Almonte in 1653, and the pilgrimage now draws more than a million people.

1270 (primer santuario); 1653 (patronazgo)

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