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The Bonfire Cart

Calzada del Coto, Sahagún, León

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The Bonfire Cart

Curiosity · Calzada del Coto, Sahagún, León

Every 15 August the young people turning eighteen gather firewood in the common woodlands, load it onto a cart and parade it through the village; the rite commemorates the liberation from monastic lordship in the nineteenth century.

Photo: Taurëendil (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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