Uga brings together livestock tradition and festive spirit in its pilgrimage

The town comes out on a pilgrimage accompanied by parrandas, folk groups and specimens of its camel livestock.

May 14 2023 (14:21 WEST)
Updated in May 14 2023 (17:44 WEST)
Uga brings together livestock tradition and festive spirit in the street with its pilgrimage
Uga brings together livestock tradition and festive spirit in the street with its pilgrimage

The pilgrimage is an enthusiastic cultural and solidarity manifestation, as could be seen in full this Saturday in the town of Uga, whose neighbors and visitors toured its streets adorned with joy to express their gratitude to the Patron Saint, San Isidro Labrador, materialize their offerings with products of the land and essential goods, also exhibit their agricultural and livestock tradition, especially that of their camel livestock, and enjoy the music and folklore of the Canary Islands animated by parranderos groups and folk groups from Lanzarote and the guest Folk Group Chácaras y Tambores de Garajonay, from the island of La Gomera, reports the City Council.

Pilgrims heeded the call of the Yaiza City Council and the Uga Festival Committee to participate in this street meeting where fraternization and sharing of wine, food and homemade sweets with smells of home flourish, they add. In this year's pilgrimage, the presence of young people and families with young children was very noticeable, they say.

Among the inevitable parranderos of Uga, there was Pedro Mariano Viñoly with the feeling of his people of touch and song, Pedro, who this year led the singing voice in the proclamation representing the camel sector of Uga, participated delighted with the pilgrimage as were other very young camel herders such as Francisco Mesa and more veteran ranchers such as Toño Morales or Nicolás Viñoly.

The group of elders from Yaiza also joined in the waste of joy, tradition and solidarity, he makes clear. Accompanied by municipal monitors, the older men and women of the municipality gave an example of vitality and integration by dancing and singing non-stop. Óscar Noda and the Councilor for Celebrations, Javier Camacho, led the institutional representation.

Pilgrims dressed in typical costumes, animal-drawn carts, horses, donkeys and camels enlivened the route that ended in front of the church to fulfill, pilgrims, with the respectful ritual of leaving their donations in kind at the foot of the Saint and also offering to San Isidro in the form of song, dance and poetry. Very hard-working people from the countryside enthusiastically delivered the fruit of their labor.

The Uga pilgrimage ended with the corridor made by the Folk Group Chácaras y Tambores de Garajonay to the Patron Saint while the faithful carried his figure to the interior of the church, where the sounds resounded more than ever, as did the applause of an entire town.

The Parranda Marinera Los Buches, which will receive the Gold Medal of the Canary Islands on May 30 by the Autonomous Community, celebrated this well-deserved distinction by opening the pilgrimage. The Janubio parranda, Los Labradores parranda and the Rubicón, Gaida and Timbayba folk groups enriched the festive meeting of Uga.

The celebration continued around the square and in the fairgrounds with the musical performance of Canary verseadores and Cuban punto and the traditional romero dance to the rhythm of the groups Son de Mar and Son del Norte. Uga participated and enjoyed its pilgrimage, he concludes.

 

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