Losar de la Vera festival
Bollovera Fest
The BolloVera Festival is an annual event held in Losar de la Vera (Cáceres) on the last weekend of July, coinciding with International LGBTQ+ Pride Day (July 28). It promotes diversity, inclusion, and visibility in rural settings.
BolloVera promotes a message of peace, freedom, and love, advocating for the rights and visibility of the LGBTQ+ community in rural areas. Organized by neighbors, volunteers, and local businesses, it represents an act of courage and community.
A weekend filled with color, pride, events, and music.
Official website: www.instagram.com/bollo.vera/
San Isidro Pilgrimage
The San Isidro Pilgrimage is celebrated on May 15 at the El Robledo estate in the municipality of Losar de la Vera. The festival begins with a rural mass and procession. This is followed by an offering in which traditional sweets donated by the faithful and devotees are auctioned off.
Apart from the religious festival, there is also a secular festival with all kinds of competitions for children and adults in the morning, bullfights in the afternoon, and open-air dances in the evening, along with attractions and fairground stalls throughout the day.
Festivals in Honor of the Holy Christ of Charity
The celebration of the Holy Christ of Charity takes place on the weekend of July 20, at the Los Humilladeros chapel, located on Calle Ronda Sur.
A weekend where the town dresses up and parades through the streets alongside the dancers: 12 dancers, a drummer and flute player, and the director, who carries a tambourine. The dancers wear white shirts, blue vests, red trousers and belts, and white shoes, with red ribbons tied around their heads.
It is known as the town fair.
Holy Christ of Mercy
The feast of the Holy Christ of Mercy, also known as “Christ of the Petticoats,” is the most celebrated feast in Losar. The religious celebrations begin with the departure of the Christ from his chapel, located on Cristo Street, continue with the Procession, Mass, and Offertory, and end with the transfer of the Christ to his chapel.
During the following three days, the secular festival takes place, consisting mainly of traditional bullfighting celebrations in the style of La Vera. These take place in the Plaza de España in the early hours of the morning, starting at 3 a.m., known as “Vaquillas del Aguardiente” (Bulls of the Brandy), and in the afternoon. In addition, there are parallel socio-cultural, sporting, and recreational activities.
Carnival. Manolo’s wedding, baptism and burial
The events take place between Sunday and Wednesday during Carnival.
Manolo is a famous local criminal who, at the end of his life, bequeathed his possessions to the town in exchange for forgiveness for his misdeeds. He is represented by a life-size cardboard and rag doll. The various events of the festival revolve around him: wedding, christening of his son, imprisonment, trial, death sentence, execution and burial.
The kintos of that year are responsible for entertaining and managing the entire festival.
Festivals declared tourist interest
Peropalo
A fun and different way to celebrate the carnival from the inhabitants of Villanueva de la Vera. On Sunday and Monday of Carnival, this small town dresses up as a party to recreate an ancestral tradition in which Peropalo is the protagonist. A criminal life-sized doll that fills with life the hearts of the locals and all those people who, year after year come to visit and enjoy the dances, the music and the parades of this party.
Los empalaos
Since the 16th century, in Valverde de la Vera, “los empalaos” are celebrated on Holy Thursday, in a religious and ancestral ritual in which acts of penance are performed. A religious rite that takes place in the most absolute silence, in which the penitent walks the streets making his promise or “sends” before God.
Los escobazos
Jarandilla de la Vera is filled with light on December 7th with Los Escobazos. The town becomes a spectacle of light and fire with the brooms of the locals burning while the Virgen de la Concepción crosses the streets next to them with the sound of the tamboril.
