People seen gathered during the last day of the festival in Almazan. El Zarron of Almazan Festival is a shepherd’s tradition just over 200 hundred years old that honours Saint Pascual Bailon. On its origins shepherds founded a Saint Pascual Bailon brotherhood and started parading a figure representing their Saint around the village. El Zarron is a character that represents the shepherds and wears beard, a hat with vulture feathers and a sheep or fox tail and leather clothes. Members of the brotherhood throw sweets ahead of the procession, and the Zarron has to clear the way of young people wit
People seen gathered during the last day of the festival in Almazan. El Zarron of Almazan Festival is a shepherd’s tradition just over 200 hundred years old that honours Saint Pascual Bailon. On its origins shepherds founded a Saint Pascual Bailon brotherhood and started parading a figure representing their Saint around the village. El Zarron is a character that represents the shepherds and wears beard, a hat with vulture feathers and a sheep or fox tail and leather clothes. Members of the brotherhood throw sweets ahead of the procession, and the Zarron has to clear the way of young people with a 'zambomba' attached to his stick.
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