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The stick dance (paloteo) of Matabuena

Matabuena, Comunidad de Villa y Tierra de Pedraza, Segovia

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The stick dance (paloteo) of Matabuena

Curiosity · Matabuena, Comunidad de Villa y Tierra de Pedraza, Segovia

Image of Matabuena, not of the place itself.

The village keeps a paloteo group that preserves the stick dances proper to the Segovian sierra, danced at the patronal festivities to the sound of the dulzaina and handed down from generation to generation.

Photo: Arturo Francisco Barbero (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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