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A meal to a great evening

July 29, 2006

El Norte de Castilla (ISABEL JIMENO / BERCIMUEL)

Worth the Gurrieros, the only Bercimuel, organizes the huge summer festivals

It began as a food to share with friends lambs was repeated a year later and the next. And almost without realizing it, the thing was rolling and resulted in the many summer festivals. Now, the third weekend in August is synonymous with crowds, joy, music and lots Bercimuel party, where there is still no joint food for all. They are, above all, the nights of Friday and Saturday when more activity. The scant thirty people who live daily in the municipality is multiplied to the nearly three thousand in one night. The great square of the town is too small to accommodate the crowd that even reached by bus from other cities and even other provinces such as Burgos and Valladolid.

The contract serves orchestras powerful attraction for visitors who return again this year Bercimuel 18 and August 19. The great success of the festival serves as a reward for the effort worth the organizer Gurrieros, responsible for implementing the activities.

Made up of people of all ages, the only rock of Bercimuel is who is responsible for encouraging the activity around the third weekend in August, with the cultural week and the festivals, though profane, they also have a hole to religious acts with a Mass and procession with the Virgin of the Rosary and St. Thomas, the patterns of the people, who take to the streets to those who can not attend other festivals enjoy these.

Other festivals

And the summer is not the only Bercimuel celebrations. In February, St. Agatha women celebrate with a Mass and dinner for them and a night dance in which they accommodate the rest of the people. The first week of July to get the festivities in honor of St. Thomas. The festival heralds the coming Saturday's big day begins with Mass, procession flute and drum rhythm, drawing the float sticks and bagels that have some neighbors and dance-vermouth.

In high summer, organized by The Gurrieros, and in October, the first weekend, a party quieter and less crowded than the summer honors the patron saint, the Virgen del Rosario, shelter the premises of the association. East Village: City of San Pedro



Source: Northern Castile
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