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The Chozo of El Herrumblar

El Herrumblar, La Manchuela Conquense, Cuenca

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The Chozo of El Herrumblar

Activity · El Herrumblar, La Manchuela Conquense, Cuenca

Image of El Herrumblar, not of the place itself.

El Chozo is a tradition of El Herrumblar held every Easter Sunday. Its origin goes back to the farewell given to the young conscripts setting off for military service: today it is the year's young men and women who decorate a street of the village with small pines and arches covered in branches and tissue-paper flowers, made beforehand by the mothers and women of the village. At the end of the street a shelter is put up where the Christ Child is placed. The event represents the procession of the Encounter of the Resurrection: the conscripts bring the image of the Virgin from the church, accompanied by the local confraternities and the town band, in an encounter that symbolises removing her mourning garb before returning her to the church.

Domingo de Resurrección

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