FESTIVALS
The Holy Week. By being one of the most beautiful of Andalusia, has been declared of tourist interest. The straits and steep streets of Arcos become magnificent setting for the representation of the Passion. The Confinement of the Hallelujah, Easter Sunday. Of all the feasts that are celebrated in the locality, perhaps be this that of greater popular participation; men and women will run together al bull. In the Festivity of the Corpus Christi (June) the streets covered themselves of carpets of romero to receive the step of the famous silver Custody of the 17th century. The local holiday, in honor of Our Lady of the Snows, August 5. It is used to there to be a festival to sing flamenco in the Plaza of the City Hall, as well as other acts. The Fair of San Miguel, Boss of Arcos, is celebrated to the end of September; is the greater fair. The Carnival. It revives in the years 80 as a festival perfectly integrated in this city of the Saw from cadiz and it due to that the carnival maintained their height in the principles of the century and survived secretly in the countryside in the years of prohibition, when the sales were filled of "streets bands and extras of the field". Their melody and rhythm swims they have to they do with the of the capital from cadiz, although the new generations that star in and they have given a new impulse al carnival they have assimilated more the carnival of Cadiz that the Arcos people.
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