Confinements, Romerías and migas in the street

The most significant festividades of Castril are their Supervisory celebrations, their “Bulls”. They are celebrated during the second week of October and are very famous in all the region, consists of confinements and some loose of heifers in which spontaneous they jump to the enclosure for bullfighting to face them. Sometimes some fallen mishap arises or that creates moments of surprise and agitation between the public. The Hernandez de Zafra are celebrated in the seat, in center of the town, that becomes for the occasion a rotation with a wood fence that serves as well as launching slips and protection for the assistants and the groups of participants. Their singularity and its great tradition have taken to ask for their classification how celebrations of tourist interest of Andalusia.

 

Other important festividades are the Romería of the Virgin of the Head, in pedanía of the Solana and the Easter. First they take place the last Domingo of April and second it has a character Castilian than Andalusian, with a very sober style.

The Celebration of the Migas and the Traps, are celebrated in August. Its origin comes from one old custom by which the “traps”, that is to say, the debts, tenian that to be paid for the 15 of August. At the moment the neighbors take advantage of to meet and to eat migas.