[The Guardian] Turnip fever: the Jarramplas festival in Spain

Turnip fever: the Jarramplas festival in Spain

Applicants wait years for chance to be pelted with turnips in idiosyncratic festival in Piornal every 19 and 20 January

Few teenagers dream of dressing up as a demonic cattle thief to be chased through the streets of their home town and pelted with more than two tonnes of turnips.

But in the town of Piornal, which lies in the Cáceres province of the south-western Spanish region of Extremadura, there is no greater honour.

Top: Ernesto Antonio Salgado gets a good-luck kiss from his girlfriend, Paula, before heading out to face the turnip-wielding crowds. Above left: Pérez, Pollo and Franchy, three of the mayordomos, or helpers, in this year’s festival, pose with a drum as they prepare to help Julio Antonio Rubio Moreno into his costume. Above right: José y Edu, two other mayordomos, assist Ernesto as he climbs into his Jarrampla suit

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