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FESTIVALS IN ARAGON: ZARAGOZA

The Pilar of Zaragoza

Around the 12^th October.

Festival of tourist interest. The devotion to the Virgin of el Pilar comes from the tradition assuring that the Virgin Mary miraculously visited the apostle Saint James in Zaragoza.
El Pilar festival lasts nine days, with all kinds of events: from the multitudinous pregon (a speech proclaiming the forthcoming festival) to the final fireworks in the river Ebro, there is a succession of street brass bands, dances, parades of giants and cabezudos (figures with an enormous head running after the children), concerts, exhibitions, the famous vaquillas, when everybody can run in front of young bulls in the bullring, and the well-known bullfights.
The offering of flowers (Ofrenda de Flores) to the Virgin on the 12^th is remarkable: the flowers form an enormous mantle for the Virgin in the middle of the vast square; the crowded Mass of Infantes (child singers) at dawn on the same day and the beautiful Rosario de Cristal (Crystal Rosary) in the afternoon on the 13^th.
This is a street procession with 258 lanterns and 15 polychromatic crystal floats, with great popular participation.

ZARAGOZA. Information: Town Hall, +34 976201291 and +34 976201200.

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Ample your information on Aragon

If you want to extend your information on Aragon you can begin crossing another interesting route is the Mudejar, Patrimony of the Humanity, also you can extend your cultural knowledge on Aragon examining its municipal and institutional heraldry without forgetting, of course, some of its emblematics figures as Saint George Pattern of Aragon also book of Aragon.

Also Aragon enjoys a diverse and varied Nature where passing by plants, animals or landscapes we can arrive at a fantastic bestiario that lives in its monuments.

The information will not be complete without a stroll by its three provinces: Zaragoza, Teruel and Huesca and his shines, with shutdown in some of its spectacular landscapes like Ordesa, the Moncayo or by opposition the Ebro.

Also you can dedicarte to the intangible ones: from the legend compilation that also does to universal Aragon you can persecute the presence of the Santo Grial in Aragon.

Francisco Javier Mendivil Navarro

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