The Barcelona neighborhood of Sant Andreu del Palomar returns to recover the traditional cavalcade of the Three Tombs This Sunday, January 16. The celebration will begin at 11:30 a.m. and the parade will take place respecting the covid-19 prevention measures, as reported by the city council of the Catalan capital on its website.
Last year, the Society for the Feast of San Antoni Abad de Sant Andreu de Palomar decided not to organize this traditional secular celebration due to the situation generated by the covid pandemic.
The main activity of the Tres Tombs of Sant Andreu de Palomar is a animal ride mounted or pulling carriages that make a circuit through the most central squares and streets of the neighborhood. Halfway, in Plaza de Orfila, in front of the church, bless to the animals.
It is a party with a procession format, with a starting point and an arrival point, and the three turns have been maintained in the most central streets, the ‘three tombs’ in Catalan to which the name of the cavalcade refers.
The pattern of farm animals
The tour of the Tres Tombs de Sant Andreu is held on the Sunday closest to the festival of Sant Antoni Abat, which is January 17, pattern of animals useful for farm work. He is also the patron saint of the muleteers’ guilds. That is the day on which, according to legend, the saint died, and for that reason this date has been set to pay tribute to him.
Los Tres Tombs is a celebration in honor of Saint Anthony that is deeply rooted in Barcelona and, in the specific case of the Sant Andreu neighborhood, the passing and blessing of the animals has been done since time immemorial, since it is a place with an agricultural past very remarkable. It is also celebrated in many other towns, such as Mataró and Gavà.
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horses and donkeys
Until a few decades ago, the output of horses and donkeys in the Tres Tombs it was not something strange because they were animals present in the daily life of the city. Now it has been decades since they have disappeared from most of Barcelona’s daily life, but the celebration remains as a tribute to those beasts that have been the city’s economic and social engine for so many centuries. The parade brings together a large number of people, including many children, who want to see the animals up close, something they are not used to.
Reference-www.elperiodico.com