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Benasque, La Ribagorza, Huesca

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Festivities of Benasque

Activity · Benasque, La Ribagorza, Huesca

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Patronal festivities of Benasque, in the Huesca comarca of the Ribagorza, held on 30 June in honour of San Marcial. On that day the Ball dels Omes is danced, a traditional dance in which the men, with castanets adorned with coloured ribbons, accompany the procession bearing the saint's image and perform a choreography in formation around the linden tree in the centre of the square. The following day, 1 July, the Ball de les Dones is held, of similar structure but danced in mixed couples and without a procession. Both dances are accompanied by the Himno de Riego, a tune traditionally associated with the festivities of this Pyrenean municipality.

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