If the traveler comes searching for holidays and celebrations,
in Valderas he could find a lot of dates to carry out his purpose,
since he has to know that treads hard-working peoples, that
they do not doubt in labouring from sun to sun when they have
to do it, but that arrived the hour also know to be amused and
enjoyed in making it.
Begin the feasts in this Villa maybe acquired custom of the
Roman "carnestolendas", with the celebrations in Sir Carnal
honor. They are mask and trunk
carnivals,
of merriment and improvisation.
Forty days after arrives the
Holy
Week, of passion and concentration, with emotive
penitent processions that carry beautiful carvings.
In
The Pilgrimage of the Bread
and the Cheese, on Monday of Pentecost, is relocated
to the Virgin of the Rosary, our local patrona, until the hermitage
of the Hill.
In the Holy Cross
Pilgrimage of the 3 of May, are exchanged the
Virgin of the Rosary and the "Pastorcica", returning each one
to its place.
In July we have the
Fairs and
Holidays, that have its origin in the Middle
Ages, when Valderas was receiving feriantes and merchants, visitors
and curious, that would see here to be provided. They are days
of large "verbenas" (public popular dancing with Live-Shows),
contests, sports competitions and joinig everywhere.
The
Day of Asturias,
also in July, it is of more recent introduction, and serves
as homage to all those inhabitants of the Principality that
from immemorial time honor us with their visit year after year.
Hours of bable, cider and "bollu preñau" (Bread roasted
stuffed with chorizo sausage) .
And already in the twilights of the summer,
8
of September, begin the
Patrona
Holidays, in honor to Our Virgin of the Socorro,
happiness and amusement sessions with a wide holidays program
in the one which abound the "verbenas", "pasacalles", and sports
confrontations.