EL ROCÍO

INDEX● What is `El Rocío´?● Where is celebrated?● Why is celebrated?● How is celebrated?● Who is celebrated?● When is celebrated?● The history

The history● The village of Almonte, part of the chapel, to the late

thirteenth century, Alfonso X El Sabio stands the chapel and placed inside the Virgen del Rocio for Almonteño people, from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century, the chapel is isolated from However, when in 1834, an epidemic threatening Almonte, a group of people fleeing the settling Almonteños around the shrine of the Virgen del Rocio, forming the village of El Rocío (Almonte's village) of large white houses and its streets sands.

What is El Rocío?● El Rocio is a village in the

municipality of Almonte, in the province of Huelva. It holds an important Marian pilgrimage, the pilgrimage of El Rocío. The village has 1,635 inhabitants (INE 2008), although during the festival of Pentecost, the number of visitors has come to reach a total of about one million people.

Where is celebrated?● The Romeria of

Rocio is celebrated in the village.In the village is church and in it is the virgin the “Rocio”

● The village is in Almonte (Helva).

Why is celebrated?

● This party is a vote of grace that gives the Almonteños his patron the Virgin del Rocio, by releasing a hand tragedy of the French in 1810.

How is celebrated?● The Virgen del Rocio is

transferred to the parish of Almonte every seven years, after the boy Rocío Pilgrimage, shoulder 15 kilometers from the village of El Rocio to Almonte. Along the way she is dressed as a shepherdess and there when it comes to the parish of Almonte, the dress queen. Nine months later, when he returns to his hermitage to the village of El Rocío, is dressed as a shepherdess again and again to get the dress of Queen.

Who is celebrated?

When is celebrated?● Is celebrated the weekend

before Pentecost Monday (just 50 days after Easter Sunday Easter) and the same Monday morning the Virgen del Rocio is paraded on the shoulders of the Almonteños, so the door paseandola brotherhood of the traditional houses.