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La Morena of the Laza carnival

Laza, Verín, Ourense

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La Morena of the Laza carnival

Curiosity · Laza, Verín, Ourense

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After the farrapada, a wooden figure imitating a cow's head comes down into the square guided by a local resident and charges at the people; that same Monday the young men release ants over the gathered crowd. It is one of the high points of the Entroido de Laza, the longest carnival in the province, which begins a month before the opening Sunday with foliones of chocos and drums and culminates, on that Sunday, with the peliqueiros, central figures in masks and animal-shaped caps who run through the town and hand out loaves called galegas. On Monday, known as borralleiro, the plaza da Picota first hosts the farrapada, a battle with mud-soaked rags, and in the afternoon the descent of the morena, followed by the throwing of the ants collected by the local young men.

Photo: Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (Lmbuga) (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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