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Many celebrations take place here in Santa Tegra Hill.
One of them is in May, Pentecostés. Later in August
the celebration of the Hill, the Great Week of A Guarda.
It's a pagan celebration.
On 23rd, September, the one we are celebrating today,
it's the Romeria of Santa Tegra and bank holiday in A Guarda.
It's an old celebration. Its historical data is lost.
It's celebrated as I said on 23rd.
There is a mass at 11 o'clock in the morning.
After that there is a procession around San Francisco.
People get dressed with local customs and when the procession
is finished they offer their products to the saint.
Later, behind us there is an auction with many products, all of them local products.
There are products of the sea, works that women make themselves by hand,
animals too, and rabbits. These ones are very much applied products by the devotees.
In August we celebrate a curious religious ceremony, the Boto.
Only men celebrate it. It is 650 years old.
This ceremony comes from a very big draught that it's said there was in this area.
Women and men climb to Santa Tegra and after spending
three days of fasting it began to rain.
Since then those people promised to keep on doing it.
This circumstance changed throughout the time.
Women got some privileges, they stopped to spend nights
there and because of the fasting too, it became a celebration only for men.
This ceremony of the Boto is celebrated symbolically last Saturday of August
Another ceremony is San Esteban in December.
In the Romeria as well as in the Great Week of A Guarda,
the second Sunday of August, is as great as a meal at home.
There are seafood, our famous empanada, wines, liquors, coffee.
Well, all products from our tasteful gastronomy.
There is some fish too, maybe less, better meat, seafood and mainly empanada.