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CILLORIGO DE LIÉBANA
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In the larger local fiestas, Tama celebrates the festivity of San Isidro Labrador in May, with a mass. Later, there´s a raffle of farm tools and other gifts within the cattlemen in the municipality; there´s also a lively open-air dance and "verbena".
In the hermitage of San Tirso (Ojedo), a magnificent open-air dance takes place on the last Sunday of August. A lot of people from the valley turn up at this field, which is an impressive balcony over Liébana with great views to Picos de Europa. There´s a campaign mass and later a procession carying the Saint around the hermitage. There is a custom from inmemorial times of jumping over the fire in the centre of the field, and the town council of Cillorigo offers a magnificent appetiser to the visitors, with portions of lamb. There is country food and many children games besides the traditional music.
In the municipality of Cillorigo, many other popular fiestas are celebrated, like that one in the hermitage of Guadalupe, from where there are beautiful views of Bedoya and Tama; in the hermitage of San Miguel or in the hermitage of Santa Lucía, above Armaño. |
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CALENDAR OF FIESTAS
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January Day 7.- San Julián - Lebeña May Day15.- San Isidro Labrador - Tama June Day 24.- San Juan - Cabañes and Salarzón. August First Sunday.- El Rosario - Lebeña September Day 15.- Nuestra Señora del Rosario - Esanos November Day 11.- San Martín - Viñón December Day 8.- Inmaculada Concepción - Cobeña and
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The municipality of Cillorigo
de Liébana still preserves some old traditions and the
popular "festejos" (fiestas). Within popular religiosity,
the Easter acts stand out, in the Honour Valley of Bedoya. In
Esanos a procession takes place on Easter Friday, making as if
it were the Calvary stops until they arrive to the church of
San Pedro de Bedoya. It is tradition that a youngster who is
about to go that year to the military service acts as a Nazarene,
carrying the Cross and seconded by the "Cireneos".
The "Rosario de la Buena Muerte" is also traditionally
sung in Bedoya.
The first day of August the
neighbours in the six villages of Bedoya go to the hermitage
of San Pedro de Toja, in Toja. After the mass they go on a procession
with the Saint around the building. There is a great devotion
in the whole valley.
Every five years a marvellous
fiesta takes place on the summit of the "Pico San Carlos"
also called "Sagrado Corazón" (2,212 meters),
in Picos de Europa. The town council of Cillorigo financed the
expenses of changing the brass image of the "Sagrado Corazón"
(Sacred Heart), which was very deteriorated by the effect of
thunder, and organises a party which began in 1900, at first
celebrated every ten years, but every five later on, as it is
today. Many local people turn up, as well as many mountaineers
from many points of the Spanish geography, or even from abroad.
The main access routes are from Bejes through Andara and from
Viñón through the pasture lands of Trulledes accross
the San Carlos Channel. There is a campaign mass and food in
the pastures of Andara, to conclude with a lively open-air dance
and "verbena" in Bejes. The next fiesta will take place
in the year 2,000, when it will be 100 years since this fiesta
began.