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Holidays(Parties) popularesç: they are celebrated from August 4 to August 7, these are the employer(management) holidays(parties) in honor to the Virgin of Rosario.
Day of the cross: it is celebrated on May 3, after the mass in honor to the Santa Cruz, the neighbors and they re-join concerning(around) the crosses before decorated in the streets and squares(seats) of the people(village), while it is sung and is danced.
The Candlemas: it is celebrated on February 2 generalmetne in the square(seat) of the people(village) and in the different neighborhoods where a great bonfire is realized doing a circle about the same one, where it(he,she) is sung and dances. Lasting the holiday(party) until the dawn. This holiday(party) has his(her,your) origin because in her(it) there are burned the bad spirits that surround the people(village) and his(her,your) peoples.
Virgin of the rosary: on October 7: in montillana also the virgin of the rosary is celebrated on August 7. In this major holiday(party) it is necessary to outline the regional dances and the eaten different ones that take place in the holidays.
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Holiday(Party) in honor of our lady of the Remedies that are celebrated last weekend of April, organized by the municipal commission of holidays(parties). It(he,she) possesses(relies on) a marked traditional religious character which key elements are the mass and procession of the mistress with the push-cart, the tiraores, the drummer, the flags and the halberdier. The origin of this holiday(party) goes back to the second half of the XVIth century, of there that contains elements of the clash between(among) the Moors and the Christians and the holiday(party) recalls a military clash.
Fair of the cattle is celebrated in September. Nowadays cold this one lacks the importance of long ago, when Campotejar, on having been a villa, was turning anually exactly of meeting mercantile where of cattle and the peoples of around they could acquire, sell, shoe and shear his(her,your) cattle.
Today we can find some(any) that another blacksmith or dealer but what principally prevails is the festive character, with numerous attractions, music and becerradas.
Day of the cross, May 3. Contest of crossings(crosses) organized by the town hall. The neighbors realize the crosses in closed places or outdoors, enpatios or gardens. The town hall grants three prizes valuing: the work, the customs, the tradition, etc.
Carnivals, celebrated in February, according to the days of holy Week.
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The Candlemas: it is celebrated the day 2 of February. There is realized a bonfire about which turns the whole night, and days before reccoge in the mount a few manchos of fragrant plants as the lavender with which the young men strike themselves, before ignited in the bonfire.
Pilgrimage of the day of the Cross: on May 3 the pilgrimage takes place in which(whom) the contest of crossings(crosses) and the fireworks is done by them of this day a traditional holiday(party) of great rooting between(among) the neighbors of the locality.
The pilgrimage of the virgin of the head of great tradition in the municipality, is Thursday previous to the romeía of the morenita in Andujar, in which the confraternity Colomera's counterfoil in his(her,your) way to the hill of the Summit happens(passes) for Benalúa's locality which brotherhood receives them, a mass is celebrated, there swing the flags of both fraternity and the way is continued.
Holidays(Parties) in honor to San Sebastian: they take place in the middle of August and we must emphasize the traditional bull of spark and the fireworks.
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