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.
Winter solstice in Trás-Os-Montes
Spending again the last few days of the year after the winter solstice traditions of Trás-Os-Montes.
Lazarim and its alder masks
Lazarim, a village in the mountains of northern Portugal and its old Carnival made of alder masks.