Traditional Festivities

 

March - April

LOS PICAOS, SAN VICENTE DE LA SONSIERRA

Part of the processions on the Thursday and Friday of Easter week, los Picaos are anonymous people who, dressed in white and with their faces covered, flagellate their backs in a medieval rite of self-discipline. The processions are repeated in May and September.

 

May

PROCESSION OF THE 100 MAIDENS, STO. DOMINGO

On the third Sunday in May, the Virgen de la Hermedaña romeria takes place in Soriano. The route is covered by 100 maidens dressed in white and carrying posies of holly and white flowers to the hermitage.