As part of our continuing series of Pictures Lazily Shot from the Balcony, today there was a procession for the virgin of El Rocío down the main street. The march is organized every year by the association of Andalusian immigrants-people who originally traveled from southern Spain to the Basque Country seeking work in the factories here. The area where we live has a lot of folks from Andalusia and also Extremadura, which are culturally and linguistically distinct from the Basque people. If you have ever seen flamenco dance, you can see that those over-the-top brightly-colored ruffled dresses are traditionally from Andalusia. Fittingly enough it was raining on their parade.
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