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CARNIVALS |
Month of March
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This is a popular feast,
that precedes the cuaresma. A bright one is celebrated cavalcade that
travels through the main streets with carriages, band of music, groups
of chirigotas with disguises, etc. Important prizes to the better
disguises are offered and actions of groups that are felt al contest,
what is used to carrying out themselves on Saturday at night.
During the afternoon Sunday of Carnival meet in the Square of the
Town some extras and chirigotas of other next localities, so much
of the province of Malaga as of that of Cadiz, acting and offering
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TORO
DE CUERDA |
Easter Sunday
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Toro de Cuerda, in the Mártires street
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He consists of loosen long a moored brave bull with one and heavy
cord by the streets of the town.
It is the only town of the province of Malaga in which east type
of feast is celebrated.
Its origin goes back, according to is created, to the time of the
Romans, not being able to prove it documentarily, since the municipal
archives were burnt during the French invasion.
These feast been have prohibited during several times throughout
the time, the last time, during the regime of General Franco, being
restituted with the arrival of the democracy.
This feast entails a series of proceedings and acts, emphasizing:
- Constitution of the Commission of the Toro de Cuerda.
- Collection of the necessary money; by means of raffles and voluntary
contributions of the neighbors.
- It buys of the Toro
- Collection of the Toro in the cattle ranch: moving great amount
of people, who once in the town, cross in their vehiculos touching
horns and whistles.
- Exit of the Toro from the race and stroll by the town
- Confinement of the Toro.
- Sale of the Toro
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ROMERÍA
DE SAN JUAN |
June, 24
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At night longer of the year the
candles skipped and that same day in the morning one is celebrated
romería rustic in the Asalto del Cura, in which they take place
competitions, mainly to horse, dances brightened up by an orchestra
and a popular food in which all the town participates.
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FLAMENCO FESTIVAL |
Last Saturday of July of each
year.
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This Festival of Flamenco
begins with a conference on the Flamenco world, that is carried out
Friday previous al Festival and takes place in the Peña Flamenca,
with the aid of expert speakers of the Flamenco environment.
The Festival has taken the name "of the cork", al to coincide with
the epoch of the alcornoques, indigenous tree of the mounts of our
zone.
In the event participate, besides the flamenco singers and flamenco
singers, large guitarists flamenco and large flamenco dancers and
bailaoras, being presented by Paco Vargas.
All the participants in the Festival, so much the flamenco singers
and flamenco singers, as well as guitarists, flamenco dancers and
bailaoras, count on a long one curriculum of prizes and actions to
its backs, being all they of recognized prestige in world of the Flamenco,
as for example: El Cabrero, Carmen Linares, Chocolate, Pansequito,
El Chozas, Joaquín Grilo, Manuel de Palma, Niño Chaparro and a long
one etc.
This Festival would not be able to have been possible, without the
pledge, work and dedication of Paco Benítez and Francisco J. Prieto,
as well as other collaborators as María Morán, Antonia Vacaz and Francisca
Macias.
It Organizes and Sponsors the City Hall of Gaucín. |
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FAIR
OF AUGUST |
August, 1ª or
2ª week
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It is memory of the ancient and
important fair of cattle, that it reunited to the cattle dealers
of the term and neighboring towns to carry out his transactions
of cattles. It took place between days 4 and 7 of August and like
religious reason, the festividad of the Virgin of Snows was commemorated,
Pattern of the Town.
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ROMERÍA
TO THE ADELFILLA |
Sunday previous
to the 8 of September
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Sunday previous to the 8 of September
romería to the Adelfilla is celebrated, in which the neighbors accompany
to Santo Niño from the Church to the hermitage of the Adelfilla,
where commemorates the encounter of Santo Niño with Juan
Ciudad (San Juan de Dios). Santo Niño takes to shoulders
from the church to the entrance of the town where he rises a cart
thrown by oxen and adorned properly for the occasion and during
the passage he sings himself and he drinks until arriving at the
hermitage where a mass in its honor is celebrated and next an orchestra
brightens up the rustic food.
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SANTO
NIÑO |
September,
8
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Procession of Santo Niño Dios de Gaucín |
The month of August
of 1536 ran when, coming from Gibraltar and according to account the
tradition, found a barefoot boy, offering Juan to him its footwear
but to being to him useful it did not take it to shoulders until the
source of the Adelfilla to calm his thirst. It was then when a shining
boy and with a grenade crowned by a cross said to him: " Juan de Dios,
Granada will be your cross ".
Spent the time, after founding a hospital on Granada he made the project
by the dreamed one and that was to donate to Villa de Gaucín an image
of the Divine Boy. This fact happened the 7 of September of 1540 when
deceiving the monitoring of the guard of the castle deposited the
beautiful image in the present one in the present hermitage.
During the permanence of the French troops in Villa de Gaucín, in
1810 July, the hermitage was sacked and the primitive image of the
Boy was thrown by the walls of the castle.
After the march of the French and appearance of the image solemn acts
in thanksgiving were celebrated.
The 8 of September of 1936 were sacked the hermitage and burned the
primitive image. |
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