Festivities+of+Madrid

=__//Traditional festivities of Madrid //__= This page has been created by Andres Savchynets

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 * =====//May 15, San Isidro Labrador (Madrid's patron saint). // =====
 * =====//June 13, San Antonio de la Florida.This page has been created by Andres Savchynets // =====
 * =====//July 16–25, Virgen del Carmen festivities (Patron saint of the sea). // =====
 * =====//August 6–14, Virgen de la Paloma festivities (Madrid's patron saint) // =====
 * =====//August 7, San Cayetano (Cascorro neighbourhood's patron saint). // =====
 * =====//August 10, San Lorenzo (Lavapiés neighbourhood's patron saint). // =====
 * =====//November 9, Virgen de la Almudena festivities (Madrid's patron saint). // =====


 * Carnival, a carnival with parades and costume parties culminating on Ash Wednesday with the traditional burial of the Sardine, marks the beginning of Lent.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span class="long_text"> The burial of the sardine is a ceremony that in Spain, announcing the end of the carnival and other festivities. Burials usually consist of a carnival parade that parodies a funeral procession and culminates with the burning of a symbolic figure, generally representing a sardine. The burial of the sardine carnival is celebrated on Ash Wednesday and he symbolically buries the past, to the socially established, so they can be reborn with greater force, for the emergence of a new society transformed
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">During the Fiestas del 2 de Mayo, a festival of the Community of Madrid, celebrations include a wide variety of concerts, open-air dancing and sporting events. Bullfights are also held.<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Madrid_-_Fiestas_de_San_Isidro_-_Chulapos_-_20070515-15.jpg width="199" height="293" align="right"]]


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">May 15th marks the start of the celebrations surrounding the month-long Fiestas de San Isidro honoring the patron saint of Madrid and are the most lively popular festivities in Madrid. Tradition demands that one attends the Romería (pilgrimage) to the saint's meadow to drink from the miraculous water at the fountain of the hermitage. Traditional Castizo dress is worn, and the typical barquillos (rolled wafers),

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">buñuelos (fritters) and rosquillas (doughnuts) are for sale. This time of year also ushers in the famous Feria Taurina or bullfighting fair which also carries the name of the patron saint of Madrid and lasts from the middle of May to the middle of June at the Plaza Monumental Las Ventas bullring. Concerts, open-air dances and outdoor celebrations are also held during this period.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The 13th of June, the day of San Antonio, young girls have a date at the hermitage of San Antonio de la Florida. According to dressmakers' tradition, a single girl must place 13 pins in the baptismal font, and if one of the pins sticks to her finger, she will marry during the year.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">August is the month of celebration in some of the typical districts of Madrid. From the 6th to the 15th, the Fiestas de San Lorenzo, San Cayetano and the Virgen de la Paloma are commemorated with processions, open-air dancing, and sidewalk concerts in the park of the Vistillas and vicinity.

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