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Boloencierro of Mataelpino

El Boalo, Cuenca del Guadarrama, Madrid

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Boloencierro of Mataelpino

Activity · El Boalo, Cuenca del Guadarrama, Madrid

Image of El Boalo, not of the place itself.

During the festivities of San Bartolomé the residents run in front of a ball of almost three hundred kilos and more than two and a half metres across, which rolls some seven hundred metres down the street; the idea was born around 2009 as an alternative to the bull run.

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