A trip of fervor and dust
Andalucia 2005
Invited by chance to make the pilgrimage with the brotherhood of "Cabezas de San Juan", I experienced a moment of nomadism and see that every year for ten days, gypsies and non-gypsies of Spain found themselves around the same fire.
At Pentecost, the Virgin del Rocio also called "paloma blanca the" gathers around her hundreds of thousands of pilgrims in the village del Rocio in the province of Huelva.
This is on foot, horseback and 4 × 4 that accompany the pilgrims "Sinpecado" of their village, a kind of flag representing the Virgin and transported by mules.
This movement brings together gypsies and payos (non-gypsies) in a return to nomadism. Today in trailers pulled by tractors, when the convoy stops, and we rest in the evening around the fire dancing Sevillanas.
Reached El Rocio, this takes on a religious pilgrimage and fetish orgies when the virgin is exposed to view.
This feature is written in the form of exposure
Tags: andalusia , paloma blanca , el rocio , gypsy , Las Cabezas de San Juan , pilgrimage , sevillana