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La Pesada de Lituénigo

Lituénigo, Tarazona y el Moncayo, Zaragoza

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La Pesada de Lituénigo

Curiosity · Lituénigo, Tarazona y el Moncayo, Zaragoza

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La Pesada de Lituénigo (Zaragoza) is held on the Sunday of the village's patronal festivities in honour of Saint Michael, the last weekend of September, and has been documented since 1295; the tradition may have arrived from the Pyrenees after the resettlement of the Reconquista and may be linked to the payment of tithes. It has three parts: la Llega, in which the stewards of the following year's festival collect wheat; the weighing of children born that year; and the auction of sacks of wheat, won by whoever secures the key without anyone else bidding further. Legend has it that a childless couple from Lituénigo asked friar Matías for a child, and the woman promised to offer as many sacks of wheat as the kilograms the child would weigh at birth. The tradition was declared a Fiesta de Interés Turístico de Aragón (official Spanish designation for festivals of tourist interest) in 1998.

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