#valencian

It is unknown why exactly this tradition started, but it seems to have started in the 14th century, most likely in the event of a catastrophe such as a drought.

Since then, every year on the last Friday of April, 13 chosen inhabitants of the town of Les Useres (Castelló, Valencian Country) go on a 35km-long pilgrimage crossing forests going up more than 1,000 m up the Penyagolosa mountain to reach the Sant Joan chapel (1893 metres above sea level). This is done to ask for health, peace, and rain from the sky (in Latin: da nobis salutem et pacem, et pluviam de caeli). And then they walk back to the town.

The 13 men are 1 guide and 12 pilgrims, who will walk and chant during the pilgrimage. They are a parallel to Jesus Christ and the 12 apostles in the Via Crucis (Christ's path carrying the cross to be crucified, a walk that is very spiritually significant in Christianity and replicated in many Christian rituals). They are followed by 25 people and animals who carry the food and tools the pilgrims will need, as well as other townspeople who want to, who march in silence together.

All the clothing, route, food, everything is planned and done following the detailed tradition, starting at 3:30 am.

Qui no té cap, té cames.

Those who don't have a head, have legs.

This is said to people with bad memory. If you forget things, you always have to run back and forth to get the things you forgot.

But I like another one, too:

Val més llapis curt que memòria llarga.

A short pencil is worth more than a long memory.

The Valencian cook Lucía Murillo shows how to cook rice with artichokes, broad beans, pork and rabbit. It's a typical winter recipe from the Valencian Country.

Hi! Thank you very much for taking it into account.

I think this is the post you're referring to:

This post talks about the spread of language (can be applied to all Iberian Romance languages, really) and where Valencian comes from (Western Catalan), and it goes into why the main arguments used by blaverists are the product of Catalanophobia.

I answered another ask:

This one talks about why the distinction is harmful and the political origins of blaverism.

And lastly this one: