GDR Sierra de Aracena y Picos de Aroche

The Feast of the Cross more important in the region of the Sierra de Aracena y Picos de Aroche occur in populations Almonaster la Real (Cruz de la Fuente, and Cruz de El Llano), Las Veredas and Aguafría.

The party crosses Almonaster Ethnological Interest is declared, and her protagonists are women and music. This tradition has been celebrated since the first quarter of the seventeenth century and it is also characteristic of rivalry between the two guilds, the Cross of the Plain and the Cross of the source, apparently caused by differences between social classes, rich and poor, but this rivalry that is passed from mothers to daughters, is an essential part Almonaster crosses.

The festival lasts several days, during which various rituals are performed, Chubarba Sunday, he goes into the field to collect chubarba shrub which forms the basis for the decoration of the cross.

Saturday Cruces, entry is made of the cross and presentation of the steward and the deputies, courtship bears and bows of tree branches and flowers, clear manifestation of the spring explosion of nature. There are turns around the Cross.

Pine night, during the night and early Saturday to Sunday, are tested and fandangos of th battle, and  at a time in the morning he visited the two crosses and when a visit to the other and vice versa which are sung these fandangos extol the cross itself at the expense of others. At dawn, head for the countryside and bring the four pine trees that adorn the corners of the cross and begin the decoration of the monuments of the cross.

Sunday Cruces or El Romero women dressed in the garb of mountain meet his cross and start the procession of the rosemary you are given the mandatory three laps of the cross, is going for his house steward who is waiting with his two deputies and she carrying the flag, symbol of his fraternity, is returned to the cross and go to an area outside at the Royal Almonaster go to the hill was in search of the steward and the deputies. He delivered the flag steward to the other steward and return to town, visit the other cross and the City, both sites offer rosemary, then head for the church and return to his cross. The musical accompaniment are the fandangos of rosemary, which will explain every moment of the ritual, to the accompaniment of flute, drum and tambourines.

The Jira or cross Tuesday, the brotherhoods goes fields, each in a place, there make a meal and invite all who come. In the evening return to the village, separately of course, they do announce its entrance with rockets and singing fandangos. That same night to get to their crosses, Stewardship  change occurs, and accompanies the new steward to her house.