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The Burning of the Castillo

San Esteban de la Sierra, Sierra de Francia, Salamanca

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The Burning of the Castillo

Activity · San Esteban de la Sierra, Sierra de Francia, Salamanca

Image of San Esteban de la Sierra, not of the place itself.

The festivals of the Christ open with a tradition of medieval root: a young man climbs the mast of a stripped tree to reach the prize hung at the top —for decades now, a ham— while at his feet a pyre several metres high burns.

Photo: Mikelzubi (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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