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Bath of the nine waves

Sanxenxo, Salnés, Pontevedra

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Bath of the nine waves

Curiosity · Sanxenxo, Salnés, Pontevedra

Image of Sanxenxo, not of the place itself.

A fertility rite performed on A Lanzada beach: women who wish to conceive let nine waves break over them at midnight during the Virgin's pilgrimage festival, on the last weekend in August, in a cult of pre-Roman origin.

Photo: amaianos (CC BY 2.0)

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