Uga is celebrating its patron saint festivities, and as tradition dictates, on the first Saturday after the proclamation, the town took to the streets in pilgrimage to offer and honor its patron saint, San Isidro Labrador, the validity of a popular expression that recalls the agricultural and livestock heritage of Uga and the enjoyment in community around the parranda, the dance and the sharing of homemade dishes and products of the land, all this celebration adorned with the display of typical costumes worn by neighbors, and visitors and impeccably dressed folk groups.
To the timple and guitars, the feeling of parranderas voices, the interpretation of folías, seguidillas or malagueñas and the dance of the invited folk groups, were joined by faces of joy and expressions of enjoyment of people from the town who generously shared the atmosphere of their common home with everyone who wanted to participate in the romera party.
In the romería of a town like Uga that is characterized by its dedication to the primary sector, animals and especially camels could not be missing. Nearly forty families in Uga earn their living from the camel sector with tourist rides in the Mountains of Fire and many other neighbors cultivate the land and work in livestock farms. The sample of the primary sector in the romería of Uga represents the reality of the town carved by the sacrificial work of women and men of several generations.
After the tour through the streets of the town, came the moment of more emotion, the arrival at the church. Folk groups and parrandas were parading in front of the figure of San Isidro to express their feeling made verse, song, music and dance among the applause of the public gathered outside the temple. Likewise, romeras and romeros of all ages left with deep respect their offerings of food, so all of them fulfilled their mission in homage to San Isidro Labrador.
On behalf of the Yaiza City Council, the mayor, Óscar Noda, who recalled during the romería his time as a dancer in the Rubicón Folk Group, and the Councilor for Festivities of Yaiza, Daniel Medina, thank the people of Uga and the people of Lanzarote for their participation in the romería, as well as their offerings in the form of song and dance and donations of non-perishable food, basic necessities and fruits of the field that will be distributed among vulnerable families in coordinated work of the Parish of Yaiza and the Area of Social Services of the City Council. Uga continues with festivities and awaits its Big Day, May 15, Thursday of religious function and procession.
