The 2025 Cuaresmera

The Museum of Commerce presents visitors who come to its rooms with the 2025 Cuaresmera. This year, the design is created by artist Chema Alonso.
The Cuaresmera, also known as Patarrona, is a traditional calendar that used to be hung in the windows of traditional grocery stores to announce the sale of salted cod. Since the 17th century, it has been depicted as an old woman with seven legs, one of which was cut off each Sunday throughout the Lenten period. Vegetables and cod were the characteristic foods of this religious period and, therefore, also attributes of the figure.
The Patarrona was equally present in homes, from Ash Wednesday until Easter Sunday, the day when meat returned to the tables with a succulent celebratory meal.