Jun
21
8:00 AM08:00
Festa da Transumância e dos Pastores - Bênção dos Rebanhos
The popular festivity of São João Batista, also known as São João das Ovelhas, is a sheperds festivity, in which the flocks are brought in a quick running mode, followed by the sheperds, parading on at the time arround the chapel of São João, in the village of Folgosa da Madalena, three laps one way, three more to the other. The flocks always cheered by the people, have the males decorated with rattles, mantaing many of the sheperds the tradition of decorating them with typical ornaments, "pêras" and "cabeçadas".