Ribbons are meant to be used: attach someone's hair, brighten a dress, wrap a gift or, metaphorically speaking, symbolizing a cause. Usually the black ribbon is associated with mourning, red with AIDS, purple with feminism or pink with breast cancer. Between 2017 and 2018 the yellow ribbon has served to re-vindicate the freeing of political prisoners in...
Carnival Sunday is the peak of the Carnival of Vilanova and la Geltru, the day that thousands of masqueraders pour into the streets to skip and dance with the seventy flags while dozens of bands and musical groups accompany them. To be a part of the masquerade, women must wear a dress and cloak of Manila, much like our Caganers.