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El primer Día de la Madre de España

Breña Baja, La Palma, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

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El primer Día de la Madre de España

Curiosity · Breña Baja, La Palma, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Image of Breña Baja, not of the place itself.

On 5 April 1936 Breña Baja became the first Spanish municipality to officially celebrate Mother's Day, on the initiative of the councillor and poet Félix Duarte Pérez, who had brought the tradition over from Cuba. It has been marked ever since on the third Sunday of May.

5 de abril de 1936

Photo: Ipatia (CC BY-SA 3.0 es)

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