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Traditional pan-fried bread. Josu Larrinaga Zugadi.

The testimonies of interviewees from Bizkaia[1] take us back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a time of ups and downs (military conflicts, dictatorships, ideological changes, civil and ecclesiastical censorship…) for our traditional Carnival (Karnabalak, Aratusteak, Carnestolendas…), as far as its significance and popularity were concerned. Carnival is, shall we state, a period which combines fixed festive celebrations and variable dates (determined by the first full moon of Easter), contextualized between the Christmas cycle and the Lenten quarantine which heralds Easter. (more…)