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The chestnut back and do visiting nursing homes.
Social Care Councillor, Antonio Calderon, and chestnut-day visit the center of El Algar on Thursday December 22 at 11 am. I have gone through the Geriatric Center and the Residence Care Home in Bethany, offering chestnuts and wedding flowers, heralding Christmas.
The Municipal Institute of Social Services and the Senior Club of the Virgin of Charity Neighborhood, performed for the third consecutive year the activity of the chestnut, in the largest Christmas program.
The larger clubs will give a sample of these products and other handcrafted in schools and senior centers.
The free tasting of their products and their peculiar costume is a figure that with the passage of time was lost long ago.
Traditionally, chestnuts were installed in November and December in corners with small carts which also roasted sweet potatoes and corn.
These small kiosks at once run by the famous chestnut.
Women were too old to back that, hardened by the cold, offering the traveler the autumnal delicacy wrapped in paper cones.
From the nineteenth century
His joy in the art of selling made ​​these humble ladies were known in the camping areas provided the stove, the pot and brown bag s.
That unmistakable smell of winter and the heat of the grill was a claim for which, terrified by the cold, looking for a snack to warm up.
The chestnuts were mature women who year after year looking for a shelter to shelter the winter months to sell raw chestnuts in exchange for a few coins.
Clothing to withstand the low temperatures eye, again and again, jumping crunchy chestnuts.
In the nineteenth century there was this lovable, a folkloric image has been transformed and lost over the years. But the important thing is that the recovery of this tradition to taste roasted chestnuts while walking around the city.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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