Snapshots of a Summer leaving a pandemic…
Living and Breathing the Holy Week of Zamora
Like so many Spanish cities, Zamora also lives intensely the Holy Week and there’s plenty of things going on outside the processions.
The Purifying Fire
Fire as a central element of the Entrudo dos Máscaros de Vila Boa.
Demons of New Year
The pagan New Year traditions in Portugal’s Mirandese Plateau
Festa dos Rapazes, or Young Men’s Festival – Ousilhão
Festa dos Rapazes, or Young Men’s Festival, a winter solstice masked tradition that was “adopted” as Catholic, but with the boundaries of what’s holy and pagan still very clear.