Spain has a lot! Festival Cascamorras in base is definitely up there with the strangest. Certainly the dirtiest.
Now classed as a tourist interest, it takes place annually on the 6th September.
One of the strangest, and certainly the dirtiest festival in the world is Cascamorras festival held in spanish Granada. As some like to call it, a festival of mud and dirt are a clash between two villages that throwing mud, and a long tradition of several hundred years. It is a struggle to maintain the mud between residents of neighboring villages and bases Guadix.
Every year residents Baza, in Granada, paint themselves from head to toe in black and defend your beloved statue of the Virgin Mary of residence (Cascamorra) from the neighboring town of Guadix, which is focused on stealing it.
Sounds strange? It is. But as with everything in Spain is also a lot of fun with a tradition of 500 years has been turned into a perfect excuse for a party
Cascamorras festival, which was held in the first week of September at the Baza, in the north of Granada, he is one of the more bizarre festivals celebrated in Spain each year. Its history lies in the discovery of the statue more than 500 years.
Legend says that the, after the reconquest of Granada, while the worker from Guadix demolition Merced convent in the Baza, the statue of the Virgin was discovered in the ruins. Due to the location to find the statue quickly adopted by people from the Baza, so alarmed the people of Guadix, who felt that it should be moved there because it was discovered by one of his own people.