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Getting greasy at Cascamorras Festival
The celebration was inspired by a conflict between the Spanish town of Baza and Guadix over the ownership of an icon of the Virgin of Piedad. The Cascamorras from Guadix, sent to Baza to retrieve the statue, try to stay perfectly clean to gain possession of the figure while Baza’s residents attempt to make them as ‘dirty’ as possible.
