Las Mondas and the Goddess Ceres Curiosity · Talavera de la Reina, Talavera, Toledo The festival has its roots in the offerings that Roman farmers and herdsmen made to the goddess Ceres using baskets called mundus, the term from which the word mondas is said to derive. Photo: Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA) What to see and do in Talavera de la Reina