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As every year, Zaragoza celebrates its annual el Pilar festival, which is the largest of the year. It is our third one in Spain since 2010 and we do maximize the things it offers. This year, I again dressed up in a traditional Aragonese dress and processed for about 3 hours down the main streets to the plaza of el Pilar, where we place the flowers on a massive structure dedicated to Virgin Mary. This year the procession was one of the largest: over 330 thousand people participated in the Ofrenda (the offering) and another tens of thousands watching the event.
The festival goes on for a whole week, complete with concerts, massive amount of events for all ages, an amusement fair, a huge ferris wheel that was setup downtown for the first time this year, and bull fighting.
We went to see corridas (bull fights) a few times this year and one was quite amazing, featuring Jose Padilla, el Cordobes and el Fandi. El Cordobes had very close call with two of the bulls but luckily did not get gored... Whewwww....
After a full week of color, food and experiences we are resting and getting ready for our windy winter season which is inevitable now. While the weather has held nicely, with temperatures up to 25C, it will soon cool off and we will be into the short winter stretch.
But as we know, the winters here are sunny, which beats the rain any day....
