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There are 2 major festivities every year in Sandoval de la Reina:
     1st ... Saint Blaise  (February the 3rd)
    2nd .. Summer festivities (usually the last or last but one week of August)

 

 

1st ... Saint Blaise (died 316 Ad.) bishop of Sebastes (now Sivas, in Turkey) and martyr. When the Roman emperor Licinius began to persecute the Christians, Blaise run away, but was arrested. For refusing to renounce his faith, he was skinned alive with wool-combing hooks and beheaded.
   According to a legend, Blaise once saved the life of a child who was suffocating with a fishbone. That's why Roman Catholic Church has theMy group custom of blessing throats on St Blaise Day on February 3rd. He is also the patron saint of wool carders or combers.
   Sandoval de la Reina began to praise Saint Blaise in 1834 on the occasion of the Saint had protected the inhabitants from an epidemic through a relic.
Every Saint Blaise day, during the Mass, people worship the relic. The reliquary holding it is kissed. Many believers from the near villages come to kiss it with the aim to get protection against the throat conditions. We hope they'll be with us many more years.
   The celebrations last usually for three days. Among the plays that are held: Card games ("mus" and "brisca" a very Spanish ones), "tuta" (a game where a metal disc is thrown to a diabolo-shaped short piece of wood, women skittles (a typical and very very local bowling). A lively night party animated by a band lasts late at night and in the darkest of it drinking chocolate is handed out for free to everybody, locals and foreigners. A moto-cross is intermitently held, some years, and it counts for the Provincial Championship .

 

 

 

2nd The Summer Fiesta is entertained with more activities.  Children's games and adult's games. A Spanish omelette contest is held and then the omelettes publicly tasted and eaten and watered down with wine and non-alcoholic drinks and with good sociable relationship sharing time, chat and food (52 omelettes entered the competition in 2004). Women’s skittles contest. Evening dancing and night party livened up by a professional band, lasting until five in the morning or so on the chosen Friday for the fiesta.
The final touch is the Club lunch on the riverside on Sunday for all the members (199 in 2004). From now on, everything seems to be smoothly coming to an end and the memories and the feeling of calmness will take on and remain until work or school start.
The village’s Club Sandovale, increasingly nearing every year the 200 members organizes the whole summer fiesta.
If you want to become a member you just have to pay the membership annual fee (12 euros in 2004)
If you want to enjoy yourselves in a small village festivity just come and you'll never forget it.

 


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