"El Rocio" Pilgramage  Come and join us on this 3-day journey to enjoy gaily decorated covered wagons, colorful festivity of “El Rocío”, full with traditional Sevillanas dance and music as well as devotion to the “Virgen del Rocio”. Perhaps the most spectacular is the one devoted to the Virgen del Rocío, popularly called "El Rocio" for short. Nearly a million people from all over Spain and Andalucia make the long journey to gather in a small hamlet of El Rocio in the marshlands of the Guadalquivir River delta (south of Almonte), where the statue of the "Madonna of the Dew" has been worshipped since 1280. The pilgrims come on horseback and in gaily decorated covered wagons from all over the region, transforming the area into a colourful and noisy party.
DAY 1- (SATURDAY) ALTAMONTE
	Meet at at the hotel in Altamonte and talk over the logistics for the weekend. We will visit this strage outpost of the wild west with wide sandy streets lined with houses, complete with broad for tying horses. This also a good day to go shopping for souvenir of the pilgrimage and related paraphernalia also the the place to buy the latest fashions for the pilgrimage.
DAY 2 - (SUNDAY) ALTAMONTE
	Visit historical buildings that are dedicated to the various hermandades (brotherhoods) which are more than a hundred, followed by an evenning dinner of paella campestre. Also, you will have the opportunity to mingel with the locals. This event is one long party that will be in your memories forever!
DAY 3- (MONDAY) ALTAMONTE
	The climax of the festival is before Pentecost Monday, in the early hours of this Monday the Virgin is brought out of the church.