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Where it really is the joy of this town is din doubt the day of his pilgrimage "The JIRA" is celebrated on Easter Monday. The village wakes up with music through its streets, are concentrated around the Church of the Assumption in the center of town to lower the shoulders to the Virgin float contest, the winner being responsible for carrying the Virgin to Chapel of the pilgrimage. Then starts the exit to the municipal property where there is a whole day ahead to dance in the dance, mingle with the peasants in their canteens pitarra wine tasting and sausage so characteristic of this land.
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Extremadura (Estremaura in Extremadura and the fala). It is a Spanish autonomous community located in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. It is composed of the two largest provinces in Spain: Cáceres yBadajoz. Extremadura bounded on the north by the provinces of Salamanca, Ávila (Castilla y León), south conHuelva, Sevilla and Cordoba (Andalusia), on the east, with Toledo and Ciudad Real (Castilla-La Mancha) and west conPortugal. Its capital is Mérida (Augusta Emerita old), the city recognized by the Statute of Autonomy as the seat of the Government of Extremadura.