La Cuaresmera

The 2026 image has been created by designer María Crisóstomo

The calendar was hung in shops and homes to count the passing of the seven weeks of Lent, a period of fasting and abstinence from meat that precedes Holy Week.

**The figure of the old woman with seven legs and the foods typical o...

The 2025 image has been created by the artist from Salamanca, Chema Alonso.

The calendar was hung in shops and homes to count the passing of the seven weeks of Lent, a period of fasting and abstinence from meat that precedes Holy Week.

**The figure of the old woman with seven legs and the...

The 2026 image has been drawn in pen and watercolor by illustrator Juan Cáneba.

The calendar was hung in shops and homes to count the passage of the seven weeks of Lent, a period of fasting and abstinence from meat that precedes Holy Week.

The figure of the old woman with seven legs an...

The tradition of La Cuaresmera has persisted in some families from Salamanca until the 90s of the present century, as noted by the Salamanca ethnographer Rosa Mª Lorenzo in the book Semana Santa en Salamanca published by the Salamanca City Council in 2014, where she states:

In my memory, I ke...

The 2022 image was created by illustrator Tomás Hijo.

The calendar was hung in shops and homes to count the passing of the seven weeks of Lent, a period of fasting and abstinence from meat that precedes Holy Week.

**The figure of the old woman with seven legs and the foods typical of the r...

The Cuaresmera used to be hung in a house window on Ash Wednesday and a leg was torn off every Sunday of Lent.

**On Easter Sunday, it was sawn or burned with its last remaining leg, and that day of joy was celebrated with a succulent meal where meat, in the form of lamb, sausages, or hornazo...

Lent, -a forty-day period of fasting and abstinence from meat, which precedes Easter and begins on Ash Wednesday- is already documented in 13th-century French literature and in 14th-century Castile by the Archpriest of Hita in The Book of Good Love.

**The Lenten figure was also displayed in th...

The 2026 image has been created by illustrator Luis de Horna.

The calendar was hung in shops and homes to count the passage of the seven weeks of Lent, a period of fasting and abstinence from meat that precedes Holy Week.

**The figure of the old woman with seven legs and the foods typical...

Following the trend started three years ago for the calendar illustration to be done by different local artists, this year's has been commissioned to Andrés Alén.

Lent, -a period of forty days, of fasting and abstinence from meat, which precedes Easter and begins on Ash Wednesday- alrea...

The calendar was hung in shops and homes to count the passage of the seven weeks of Lent, a period of fasting and abstinence from meat that precedes Holy Week.

The image has been created by the designer Bárbara Bejarano.

The figure of the old woman with seven legs and the foods typical...

This calendar of La Cuaresmera and its burning is noted in Salamanca by Enrique Esperabé in his book Salamanca en la mano, in the year 1930.

As if moved by a spring, without anyone telling them anything or reminding them of the date, the boys of Salamanca, on the very day that marks mid-Lent,...