Serpa: Courting History and Ethnography brings thousands to the streets of the "White City".
Today from 16.00 Serpa hours the streets will be littered with people jostling to see the parade Historical and Ethnographic, Our integrated into traditional Parties Lady of Guadalupe, the patron saint of the county.
Easter, is the strongest date in the religious traditions and pagan, of the "White City" and the procession, one of the highlights of the celebrations. The first parade was held in 1979 and was then the idea president of the municipality, John Rocha, now, mayor in Beja and joins over 700 participants, between extras, drivers and team work.
The procession is local staff, showing the history, ethnography and the built heritage, in the county. The responsibility of the municipality of Serpa, the procession began to be prepared for more than two months, with the loan of vehicles, most related to agriculture, painting and decoration of the same and the preparation of costumes.
Dulce Romao, 61 year old, retired, remember the first edition of the procession, held there 35 year old. "The camera does not costumes. It was all borrowed clothes. Each gave what may "and from here the event was always growing and today has a membership" unusual ", recalls.
Tomé Pires, Mayor of Serpa, recalled "the importance of the procession" in the Easter festivities and highlighted, as a novelty the fact that "having a group of young people from different countries", who have been in Serpa, under a "youth exchange", concluded.
On foot or on floats, the procession ennobles ethnography and history of the county, that visa as a single framework, the dignity of its tangible and intangible heritage.
Ao longo do cortejo o nome e a memória de Nicolau Breyner, a land child, que desapareceu no passado dia 14 March, vão ser recordados, como uma das grandes figuras serpenses, que sempre elevou o nome da Serpa, por onde passou.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
