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El Rocio (Spain)

Description: Located in the Huelva province of Spain. It's famous for its annual romería, the Rocío Pilgrimage at Pentecost when it ... more

El Rocio (Spain) ... is overflowing with a seething mass of a million pilgrims with horses and decorated carts.

Newest Review: ... me that I am still in Europe. But the tops of those verandas don't half look like hitching rails. There are not enough ... more

... people, though. There are a few tourists, including Spanish tourists and, as I walk to the town centre I find a white church that is too big for the town - and a coach park. Near the church there are shops, bars and souvenir outlets. The bars are regular Spanish bars. The shops focus heavily on traditional old-style Andalusian clothing: flamenco dresses, traditional mantilla head dresses, and fans for women; Cordoban broad-brimmed hats, short tightly fitting black jackets for men, and boots. Lots of boots. Then there i...more

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El Rocio (Spain): Am I still in Europe? Is this the twenty-first century? (724 words)
by - written on 01/12/08 (Very useful, 66 readings)
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El Rocío Go to the Spanish town of El Rocío most of the year round and be amazed at what you see. Go during the Christian festival of Pentecost and blow your mind. Here's why. Driving on the highway inland from the coast just north-east of Huelva on the Costa de la luz in south-western Spain the road sign indicates just another sleepy small town. Turn off the road into the town, though, and it is as if you have travelled in time and space for you would think for a moment you have entered an American town in the wild west of the nineteenth century, or maybe a film set. But this is no film set, it is a town in twenty-first century ... Read the complete review