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The carnival and Corpus Christi born from a papal bull

Palacios de la Sierra, Sierra de la Demanda, Burgos

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The carnival and Corpus Christi born from a papal bull

Activity · Palacios de la Sierra, Sierra de la Demanda, Burgos

Image of Palacios de la Sierra, not of the place itself.

A papal bull of 1661 fixed the village's two great festivals: the carnival joined to the feast of the Blessed Sacrament on Quinquagesima Sunday, and Corpus with decorated altars and children who scatter petals in its path.

1661

Photo: LBM1948 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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