Cascamorras: Spain’s three-day grease festival kicks off
The Cascamorras Festival features a friendly fight between two towns, for the possession of a Virgin that was discovered over 500 years ago.- Revellers covered in grease take part in the annual Cascamorras festival in Baza, southern Spain.
- The oddball character called 'Cascamorras' then stages an attempt to recapture the statue of the Virgen de la Piedad before returning to Guadix after three days to be punished by the locals for his failure.
- Every year on September 6 a villager from Guadix dresses as an oddball character called 'Cascamorras' and travels the three kilometres to the village of Baza, flanked by a team of representatives
- People climb a hill as they celebrate Cascamorras in Baza.
- The worker attempted to carry it back home to Guadix, but the Bazans snatched it. Since then every year during the first week of September in Baza, Granada, Spain, there is a party that offers visitors an excuse to get filthy with rubble and party
- A legend says that a worker from Guadix, the rival town of Baza, found a buried sacred image of a Virgin while working on the land of Baza.
The Cascamorras Festival features a friendly fight between two towns, for the possession of a Virgin that was discovered over 500 years ago.
Cascamorras: Spain’s three-day grease festival kicks off
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