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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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