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The Good Friday race

Palencia de Negrilla, La Armuña, Salamanca

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The Good Friday race

Curiosity · Palencia de Negrilla, La Armuña, Salamanca

Image of Palencia de Negrilla, not of the place itself.

On the morning of Good Friday four residents would carry the carving of the Most Holy Christ at full speed to the neighbouring village and come back running. Legend explains it by the plague: the healthy stayed here and the sick were quarantined in Negrilla.

Photo: The original uploader was Hari Seldon at Spanish Wikipedia. (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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