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The flour battle
Copyright Paulo Monteiro 2024
Updated Jun 2010
Topics Documentary

Santa Cruz das Ribeiras is located in the island of Pico, in the Azores. Every year, during Shrove Monday afternoon, a group of inhabitants, mainly young people, get together to fight a peculiar battle: they throw flour to each other while they go through the main streets of the village. Almost every one protects their eyes with glasses, because the flour is thrown with considerable force.

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