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Podence

nobody@ipernity.com (J. Gafarot) — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:36:55 +0000

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Origem dos Caretos.
Marcolino.
1966

HWW

nobody@ipernity.com (J. Gafarot) — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 04:02:27 +0000

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Someone thinks of protection.

Entendimento - Understanding - Mémoire

nobody@ipernity.com (J. Gafarot) — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 05:35:56 +0000

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Time was always mandatory.
Some understood it better than others.
And kept the remembrance of that memory forever.

Podence 2014

nobody@ipernity.com (J. Gafarot) — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 04:11:20 +0000

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Friends.
Marcolino and them.

HFF

nobody@ipernity.com (J. Gafarot) — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 05:26:01 +0000

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Best Friend.
As he was in his time.

A man for all seasons

nobody@ipernity.com (J. Gafarot) — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 05:07:58 +0000

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Marcolino e a mula

HWW

nobody@ipernity.com (J. Gafarot) — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 04:04:13 +0000

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Hot Wednesday Wall.
Let it be for as long as we can.

Podence 2015

nobody@ipernity.com (J. Gafarot) — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 05:53:26 +0000

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Et voilá.
This is the last day of it.
We will be here again next time and hope you too.
Enjoy traditions and remembrance.
My friend was still there and will remain forever..

Caretos

nobody@ipernity.com (J. Gafarot) — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 08:21:17 +0000

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Caretos are masked young men dressed in suits made of colourful fringe wool quilts, wearing brass, leather or wooden masks and rattles in their belts.
The Careto tradition is a pre-historical Celtic religious ritual still practised in some regions of Portugal, namely in the villages of Podence (Macedo de Cavaleiros, Bragança District), Vila Boa de Ousilhão (Vinhais, Bragança District), Varge (Aveleda, Bragança District), among others. It currently takes place during Winter and, in certain regions, Carnival and is one of the oldest traditions being practiced in Portugal still today. Although there are "rituals" practiced at the village of Lazarim (Lamego, Viseu District), these are not of celtic origin as their origin is only officially recognized and registered as from the middle of the last century.

Careto

nobody@ipernity.com (J. Gafarot) — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 07:03:46 +0000

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Careto is a masked character from the carnival of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Portugal, with emphasis on Podence. He is a man who wears a mask with a protruding nose made of leather, brass, or wood painted brightly in yellow, red, or black. In another version, in Lazarim the mask is made of alder wood decorated with horns and other accessories.

Cabaças

nobody@ipernity.com (J. Gafarot) — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 05:40:02 +0000

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Calabash (from the Arabic kara bassasa, "glossy pumpkin") is the popular designation for the fruits of plants of the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita.
The gourd was one of the first plants cultivated in the world.
Not just for use in food, but to be used as a water container.
The gourd may have been carried from Africa to Asia, Europe and the Americas in the course of human migration,or by seeds that floated across the oceans inside the gourd. It was proven to have been in the New World before Christopher Columbus arrived there in 1492.

February - Chestnut tree

nobody@ipernity.com (J. Gafarot) — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 06:19:21 +0000

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Warm the people of Podence for the traditional Festivities.
The chestnuts are the deciduous trees and shrubs in the genus Castanea, in the beech family Fagaceae. They are native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The name also refers to the edible nuts they produce.
The name "chestnut" is derived from an earlier English term "chesten nut", which descends from the Old French word chastain (Modern French, châtaigne, Portuguese Castanha). The French word in turn derives from Latin Castanea (also the scientific name of the tree), which traces to the Ancient Greek word κάστανον (sweet chestnut).

HFF

nobody@ipernity.com (J. Gafarot) — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 05:35:06 +0000

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Cemitério - Podence
"The cemetery is the home of those who are not here, come in.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Santa Rita

nobody@ipernity.com (J. Gafarot) — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 04:47:09 +0000

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Bragança

HFF

nobody@ipernity.com (J. Gafarot) — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 04:06:58 +0000

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In Podence, a tiny village in the north-east of Portugal, about 40 men dressed in stripes of red, yellow and green wool sporting leather belts with cowbells will spend the three days before Lent running wild in the streets playing tricks on the unsuspecting girls. They are the Caretos and it seems these rituals were left by the Lupercalia wich was a very ancient, possibly pre-Roman pastoral festival, observed on February 13 through 15 to avert evil spirits and purify the city, releasing health and fertility. Lupercalia subsumed Februa, an earlier-origin spring cleansing ritual held on the same date, which gives the month of February (Februarius) its name.
This text was published here on March the 14th of 2014 but with another photo.

Now, for they were recognized by Unesco and because one old friend, one of them is gone, I will drink and think and smile, in memoriam, for all who have left us, there and everywhere.
Cheers

Podence

nobody@ipernity.com (J. Gafarot) — Sun, 18 Jul 2021 04:36:11 +0000

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Time never stops twice.
Capela de Sta Rita.
1678

Love

nobody@ipernity.com (J. Gafarot) — Mon, 31 May 2021 06:11:00 +0000

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Aimer un être, c'est accepter de vieillir avec lui.
- Albert Camus

Tenderness

nobody@ipernity.com (J. Gafarot) — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 05:54:08 +0000

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One day . . .

Once, me too, I was young.

nobody@ipernity.com (J. Gafarot) — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 04:43:28 +0000

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Smile.

You

nobody@ipernity.com (J. Gafarot) — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 04:44:58 +0000

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Friends