Photo: Miguel Ángel Rodríguez
Text: Oscar Romen Bethencourt
Today Tuesday May 3 celebrated the festival of the crosses in the municipality of El Pinar. Of real estate can be considered as holding its uniqueness, as its ancestral character. We were there to tell you all what happened and show you some little known aspects of it.
" The tradition requires that they be unmarried girls from both cores, those conducting the decoration, and that formerly were chosen by the village headman in a neighborhood council. The If any married in that year, the girls chose otra.Estas directly to young girls collect money and clothing especially gold and silver necklaces, rings and chains to adorn the Cross . With money purchase "fine cloth"-tul above all of different colors, especially blue. Traditionally only adorned with flowers (roses, "a pound" of different colors, geraneos, wonders, embudillos, mustard, poppy, ...) placed in a niche surrounded by Cerrajón, and even relinchón. He was also put fruits (figs of Tecorón and peaches ) hanging. The crosses, made by local carpenters Instead, most were not used in these dates. With a brand and a book will point the benefits provided by the neighbors, so that at the end are returned personally ".
Girls who wear the cross of Las Casas 
Mystery Color of the Cross reveals 
The cross goes in procession 
The meeting of the cross Taibique in the Pinar del Granadillo 
" The crosses are carried by young unmarried women, from right to left, and" go back "to the age of them. At the meeting takes place the permission for, having placed the de Las Casas to the right, or center at the time when there were three crosses. This often causes resentment, as well as preferential entry to the Temple Taibique Parish. "
Some tears hover between carriers crosses
After the meeting continued the procession with dancers and players of the two peoples 
Road to the church of San Antón (Photo: J. Padrón) will ...
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