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ritual firmly rooted in the past
The Fiesta de la Rama in Agaete (Gran Canaria)
The pilgrims dance ecstatically, non-stop, the sweat pouring from them while they shake palm branches above their heads. The sun, like on any August morning, is high in the sky and the path that runs from the Agaete Valley to the sea appears endless. Only a few kilometres separate the centre of this small town in the north of Gran Canaria from the Puerto de las Nieves ('snow port'), but, as the hours pass, the pilgrims have only advanced a few hundred metres. "Agüita, agüita, la rama está sequita" (roughly translated as "shake, shake, the branch is dry").
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