Video: Battle of Haro: a wine festival in Spain
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Every year, the small Spanish town of Haro, one of the largest wine producers in the world, welcomes thousands of tourists who want to fight each other on the battlefield. Serious battles are raging at the wine festival: the dignified tourists, having drunk a heady drink, began to pour over the neighbors, and they themselves turn pink from the wine taken inside and got on the clothes.
There is ecstasy in battle, and there is also intoxication from it. In Haro, the traditional metaphor of the feast-battle, known from folklore, is realized in the literal sense: “warriors” at the feast of wine really fall from the received on the chest.
The annual battle of wine takes place on June 29, the Day of the Apostles Peter and Paul. The hike begins early, at 7 am: the mayor of the town of Aro, riding a horse, leads a valiant squad on the battlefield. The procession consists of people dressed in white knitted "armor" with red bandanas. Each has a weapon loaded with wine in his hand. The path is not short - 7 kilometers. Here everyone is blessed to fight in the local chapel.
After a short mass, begins what everyone came here for. "Culturology" has already written about how great it is to pour water over girls on Easter. And what a lot of fun it must be to douse your neighbor with wine from a bucket! The battle is in full swing: the pistols have already flashed (water pistols, of course), someone is making wine bombs.
After a couple of hours of bathing in the wine of people who were not soaked in the yard in childhood, it is no longer recognizable: the entire white army seemed to have changed into pink and purple outfits. And the tart smell of wine spread throughout the area. Still: every year at least 50 thousand liters of drink are spent on an event.
Where does this strange militarized wine festival come from? The tradition of fighting on June 29 is said to date back to the conflict between the residents of Haro and a neighboring village. All the fuss flared up back in the 10th century: the two settlements then did not divide the mountain range. But then everything was still serious, and the wine festival with pouring appeared just over a century ago in memory of the glorious past.
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