Beja: Tradition of "Maya" cheered the Historic Center.
Dressed in white and with many wild floral decorations, the "Maya" returned yesterday to the Beja Historic Center, which revived a tradition with about two thousand years.
The main artery of Beja, Ports of Mértola, via a pedestrian, more than a dozen "Maya", They called for a "tostãozinho for Maya, that does not leave ", petition that was matched by many citizens who filled the street.
After a decade of interregnum and a half, by the hand of its president, Florival Baiôa (the pictures with “your” Maya), the Defense Association of Cultural Heritage of the Beja region (adpBeja) It brought back this initiative in 2014.
"Try-is to celebrate Spring, the rebirth of nature and wealth that is to come with crops "recalls historian that tradition resisted royal and ecclesiastical prohibitions and" transformed into a children's holiday ", concluded.
Yesterday the "Maya" were there on their thrones and in exchange for a "tostãozinho", floral arrangements offered necklaces.
But the music and youth work also attended and Mértola doors daily "naked" people, It turned into a "sea of ​​people and flowers".
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
