Festivals in San Leonardo de Yagüe

Festivals, culture and heritage in San Leonardo de Yagüe

San Leonardo de Yagüe preserves two very defined festive cycles. The winter festivities honour the Virgen de las Candelas, San Blas, Los Capones and Santa Águeda; in summer, the bosses of Saint Mary Magdalene and Saint John of Arganza They fill the streets with rallies, floats, music and religious acts. Added to them are the Pingada del Mayo and San Marcos.

• Date and duration: the patronal festivities take place over several days in July, with their main celebration on 22 July, Santa María Magdalena.
• Traditions and participation: opening speech, proclamation of festival queens and attendants, float parade, procession, open-air dances and activities for different age groups. Nearly fifty local clubs drive the community celebration.
• Winter festivities: held between late January and early February with Mass, a procession and stick dancing, Los Capones with traditional games, and Santa Águeda, which closes the cycle with the symbolic appointment of a mayoress.
• Traditions: la description of the Town Hall It documents the eleven dances performed by eight dancers and two zarragones inside the church, with dulzaina, tambourine and holly sticks. It also includes San Marcos, on 25 April in the hermitage of the Virgen de la Vega, and the Pingada del Mayo on 1 May.
• Usual places and participation: the acts occupy the iglesia parroquial, the hermitage of San Blas, the square and the streets, the municipal theater-cinema and the festival spaces. The City Council, parish, cultural and women's associations, dancers, bagpipers, clubs, neighbors and visitors participate.