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The San Antón fiestas Chelva is one of my favourite festivals.
With all people from the neighborhood we make big bon fires and eat and drink until late at night while music and processions come along. On Sundays we make a big paella and that is what I’m working on at the moment. Later this afternoon I will show you the video I’m making, so come back later. Continue reading “The San Antón fiestas Chelva”
San Anton: This weekend people in Chelva make big bonfires, to celebrate the feast of San Anton. The village also hosts an international oral storytelling festival: Cuentanton. Fantasy weaves around our homes. Imagine you are walking behind a magician through the narrow mediaeval streets. Suddenly, the group stops at a small square. Somewhere a window opens and a narrator starts telling a beautiful tale. The window closes, the procession continues then halts again as another window opens for a new story. It is completely enchanting.
Afterwards people return to their own bonfire. (More than two hundred fires will burn in the village). Then grills emerge and local sausages are roasted on the fires. Wine flows freely. But beware, not too much because at midnight the old tradition of empujon begins where young and not so young clogg the narrow streets with their bodies, gently pushing and jostling as shouting and laughing compete with folksongs.
On Sunday morning, domestic animals are blessed by the priest and you see a procession of horses and donkeys, cats and dogs, canaries and turtles, goldfish and hamsters and more go by. San Anton is one of Chelva´s traditional fiestas that I like the most!
