The festivals are those unique moments of the year where members of each community will come together to celebrate their saint in the church, chapel or monastery that bears his name, will have fun and will ritually experience their unity. The religious part, the food and drink, various customs associated with phases of rural and livestock life, o dance, the song and spree are components of the festivals and are of great interest as a whole, but also each of them individually. For this reason the festivals as a social event, had and have one unrepeatable concentration of life and culture which you rarely meet at other events.

Despite all the world-historical changes that have taken place in the last fifty years, changes that have overturned centuries of customs and traditions and, above all, the essence of the traditional community, the festivals They are still a common means of expression for most celebrants, who by participating in them resist alienation from their traditional culture that had as its central substance the cohesion of the community. Because in these remnants of community life lies perhaps the answer to the unified and complete World Culture that is spreading everywhere. In the hypocrisy of modern social gatherings and in the flight of "virtual" travels, the festivals come to remind us that life also exists. Life with others.

In this chapter they will be described the most important festivals of each place as well as the more classic ones delicacies offered to them.

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