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Procession of the Virgin, Cruz de Mayo, Sama de Grado, Asturias, Spain. Cross of the Hermandad de la Cruz de la Calle La Fuente. Rociana del Condado, Province of Huelva. Aguilar de la Frontera (Province of Córdoba). There is a procession of Nuestra Señora de los Remedios from the Iglesia de la Veracruz ("Church of the True Cross") in the ...
Dia de la Armada Nacional: Navy Day and the anniversary of the Battle of Lake Maracaibo: July 25 Aniversario del fundacion del Caracas: Caracas City Foundation Day August 3 Día de la Bandera: Flag Day: August 4 Día de la Guardia Nacional: National Guard Day September 8 Día del Virgen del Valle: Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary, feast of the ...
The term fulía refers to a variety of folk genres in Venezuela generally performed as part of the vigils of the Cruz de Mayo. [1] [2] Of these genres, there are two that are especially prominent: the fulía central (spanning the coastal areas of the Capital, Central, and Central-Western regions, notably Barlovento) [3] and the fulía oriental (Spanish:"Eastern fulía") or cumanesa (Spanish ...
The holiday is a celebration of the Battle of Puebla, which occurred in 1862 in Mexico and saw a Mexican army with 2,000 soldiers defeat a French army with 6,000 soldiers in one of the unlikeliest ...
The Nativity, Holy Week, Corpus Christi, the Cruz de Mayo, and patron saints' holidays are central to Afro-Venezuelan expressive culture throughout the country. The Día de los Inocentes (Feast of Fools, 28 December) is also celebrated and is particularly important in Barlovento, where "governments of women" are set up parodying male authority ...
Velorio de Cruz de Mayo, drawing by Anton Goering (1892) Another very popular music in Venezuela is the Gaita Zuliana. This genre originated from the region of Zulia State and is very popular during the Christmas season. The gaita united to the Aguinaldo, conforms the national representation of the Venezuelan Christmas.
Cinco de Mayo is celebrated throughout America — and beyond “More than 150 Cinco de Mayo celebrations are held across the U.S.,” Robinson says. “But it’s celebrated as far away as Osaka ...
Independence Day (Spanish: Día de la Independencia), also known as the Fifth of July (Cinco de Julio) is the national independence holiday of Venezuela, marked every year on July 5 which celebrates the anniversary since the enactment of the 1811 Venezuelan Declaration of Independence, making the country the first Spanish colony in South America to declare independence. [1]