Sunday 18th January -the day when the statue of San Sebastian was carried from the church in Conil through the town and into the pine forest at El Colorado about 3 miles away.
San Sebastian apparently was a Roman soldier who was shot by arrows by archers because he was a Christian. He didn't die then but was later stoned to death.
All the locals came out to take part in the procession and party. Many were on horseback,others with horse and carts and loads more on foot like us.It took over 2 hours to reach the forest-lots of stops for singing and dancing. We all had a small ceramic sherry pot hung around our necks which had to be filled at every opportunity.We had lunch in the forest and then carried on walking until we reached a place to have a bbq and watched the rest of the floats going by. The 3 dogs were the stars as they had lots of photos taken of them with their green scarves around their necks.
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