About 2,500 loaves of bread and 60 kilos of Roncal cheese in portions ‘flew’ this Thursday from the balcony of the hermitage of the Holy Cross of Quel (La Rioja) before about 2,000 people, who gathered to relive a tradition dating back to 1479.
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As every year, the twelve brothers and the abbot who make up the Brotherhood of the Transfiguration of the Lord, better known as ‘Of Bread and Cheese’, proceeded to throw the bread and cheese from the balcony of the hermitage of Quel, keeping alive one of the oldest rites in Spain.
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