On Sunday, March 1, a popular festival was held in the Plaza del Museo del Comercio celebrating the arrival of the Lenten period. The event, organized by the Brotherhood of Forgiveness, the neighborhood association Prodesi and the Museum of Commerce, was attended by the Councilor for Tourism, Fe...
Lent, a period of forty days of fasting and abstinence from meat, which precedes Easter and begins on Ash Wednesday, is already documented in 13th-century French literature and in Castile in the 14th century by the Archpriest of Hita in The Book of Good Love. In the seventeenth century the popu...
The Museum of Commerce gives visitors who come to its rooms, from Wednesday, February 17, the cut-out drawing of a Lenten, symbolic representation that was hung in shops and houses to account for the passage of the seven weeks of the Lenten period. Lent was usually hung in a window of the house o...
