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.
My weeks of confinement
A visual diary of my days, or weeks, under the Covid-19 confinement.