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 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 2022 image was created by illustrator Tomás Hijo.
**The figure of the old woman with seven legs and the foods typical of the r...
The Museum of Commerce offers visitors who come to its halls, starting Wednesday, February 17, a cut-out drawing of a Cuaresmera, a symbolic representation that was hung in shops and homes to count the passing of the seven weeks of the Lenten period. The Cuaresmera was traditionally hung in a house...
Lent – a forty-day period of fasting and abstinence from meat, preceding Easter and beginning on Ash Wednesday – is already documented in 13th-century French literature and in 14th-century Castile by Archpriest of Hita in El Libro del Buen Amor.
In the 17th century, the popular representation of...
The 2026 image has been created by illustrator Luis de Horna.
**The figure of the old woman with seven legs and the foods typical...
