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Monterroso Fair Song

Monterroso, Ulloa, Lugo

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Monterroso Fair Song

Curiosity · Monterroso, Ulloa, Lugo

Image of Monterroso, not of the place itself.

The Feria de Santos de Monterroso, capital of the Ulloa comarca, has been held every 1 November since at least 1450 and was declared a festival of tourist interest in Galicia in 2011. Around it grew a songbook of its own: the saying "Bestas en pelo hainas en Monterroso" and several coplas that repeat the same absurdity with different protagonists -twenty-five tailors, forty-five students, seven friars from a convent or even sixty thousand crows- riding on horseback on a fox. That cantiga, still sung in the town's verbal duels, is the liveliest testimony to the fame the fair achieved in Galician oral tradition.

Photo: File:Les_plantes_cultivades._Cereals_(2008).djvu: Miquel Pujol Palol derivative work: Joancreus (talk) (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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