Wednesday 29 January 2020

San Valero

San Valero, 29th January is a holiday in the city of Zaragoza. Valero was a Christian bishop in the end of the third, beginning of the fourth century.
This year it's a Wednesday so it breaks the working week in half.
In the Plaza del Pilar, they give out free "roscón de San Valero circular spongy cakes. It was also a museum day and we went to the Roman theatre. It was "discovered" in 1972, when they were excavating the area. Trere's not really much left, but like all the Roman sites in Zaragoza it's really well displayed.


You can see it from the street, and it's protected from the weather by a roof. 
In the town hall entrance, we found more "giants and bigheads" than I've ever seen. They are hollow and a person goes under the skirts to make them live-I think the head of the person would reach about waist height. 

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