Spain: Almazan celebrates 'El Zarrón' festival by Jorge Sanz
The Spanish town of Almazán celebrated 'El Zarrón' festival, It is a shepherds tradition just over 200 hundred years old that honours Saint Pascual Bailon. On its origins shepherds founded a Saint Pascual Bailon brotherhood. 'El Zarron' is a character that represents the shepherds and wears beard, a hat with vulture feathers and a sheep or fox tail and leather clothes. Members of the brotherhood throw sweets ahead of the procession, and the Zarron has to clear the way of young people with a 'zambomba' attached to his stick.
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