This document summarizes the key events and traditions of the Peropalo festival in Villanueva de la Vera. The festival is symbolized by the puppet Peropalo and features music, colorful costumes, and anarchic behavior. Women wear traditional regional dresses. Young men carry sticks with attached pumpkins and hit people with them. There are rides around the village and drum-playing processions led by captains, with women in beautiful dresses and a group protecting them. A flag and bramble branch with sausage symbolize parts of the Peropalo puppet.

1. By Tehuel,Pablo and Jonás

2. INTRODUCTION
Peropalo is the
puppet of
Villanueva de
laVera,the symbol
of the most
iportant festival in
la Vera.It is the time
for noise, anarchy
and music matched
with bands of
music, scruffy
clothings and
beautiful shawls
and skirts.

3. TYPICAL WOMAN DRESS
Women dress as
they please
although most of
them wear the
traditional women
garment of the
region.

4. THE CALABACEROS The “calabaceros”
are the “quintos”
of the last year,
they hit people
with sticks with
tied pumkins

5. There are rides
around the village LAS RONDAS
the people go
playing drums and
walk with the
Capitanes”

6. There is a secular
procession, the
“Walk” in which part
of the community,
especially women
dressed in beautiful
regional dresses,
accompany the
captains. These walk
protected by a group
of ”albarraderos”.
One man carries the
flag of the event and
the woman brings
with her a thick
bramble from which a
“chorizo” (red
THE sausage) is hanging,
the simbol of the
RIDE Peropalo´s genitals.

8. The posts change with the year we think the one of 2011 is
the best of all