Every year in April, Seville has a week long fair to celebrate...well I'm not sure to be honest. It's just for fun. The best only way I can describe it is a cross between a wedding, a beer festival, and a state fair in the US. Everyone is dressed to the nines walking around a dirt fair ground in Los Remedios drinking lots of beer in tents called casetas. Most families who live in the city have private casetas for their family and friends, but there are also public casetas for everyone (mostly foreigners like who don't know anybody well enough to get invited to a caseta) to enjoy. I went with a bunch of erasmus students studying at University of Seville to watch the portada (the gate) light up to celebrate the official beginning of feria. When you enter in a caseta, everyone is wearing Sevillana clothes and dancing las sevillanas (which looks a whole lot like Flamenco if you ask me, but apparently they are slightly different dances). Women spend hundreds and hundreds of euros on handmade dresses that they wear for a week. And God forbid you wear the same dress again! The dresses are quite incredible, even if getting a new dress every year is not very environmentally friendly. And the icing on hte cake is that many people take a horse and carriage (or on occasion, a donkey and carriage) to get there so all week you see people
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AuthorI'm Emma. I love food more than anyone will ever understand - specifically cheese, chocolate, bread and pretty much every fat & carb combo you can think of - apple cider donuts, ice cream, the list goes on. Fats and carbs just go so well together. Don't you think? Why is it when I'm tasked to describe myself, I always talk about food? I guess if you want to learn more about me, you'll have to read my posts about my year as a teacher in Spain. Archives
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