Blouse and Neska Day or Garlic Day
Blouse and Neska Day or Garlic Day is held on July 25. This event in the third decade of the month July is annual. Help us
On July 25, the feast of Santiago Apostle, the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz celebrates the Day of the Blouse and the Neska, also known as 'Garlic Day'. This event is the prelude to one of the important festivals celebrated in the city: the festivities of the Virgen Blanca, which takes place from August 4 to 9.
The protagonists of this celebration are the Blusas, as the members of the "cuadrillas de mozos" of the city are called. Festive morning in which thousands of vitorian@s will comply with the tradition of buying a string of garlic, in the stalls installed in the streets Portal del Rey and Cuesta de San Francisco, and walk around with it around their necks until they return home.
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