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Reliving
history
Identity lies in scenery, gastronomy and
activity. Scenes, tastes and gestures. We
are while we are active. Ways of doing
and being, of celebrating, of building,
of expressing, which are often hidden by
the passage of time and which, in turn,
produce new day-to-day realities. But
witnesses remain: monuments, festivals
and constructions which help us to relive
those old ways of life, every year, and
which also keep the community alive.
This is a community that is discovered,
which participates and which is recog-
nised for itself. In each small corner there
is a legend, a tradition, a fair, a social
gathering, a hermitage or site with arc-
haeological remains to remind us who
we are and where we have come from.
“Falles” (burning logs) and fire, giants
and processions, churches and castles;
these are just a few of the elements that
stir our memories and carry us back into
a recent or remote past and whose ex-
pressions have now become our heritage.
Gonzalo Martínez Azumendi
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