{"id":2197,"date":"2016-05-26T10:21:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T10:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebestvillaspollensa.com\/blog\/?p=2197"},"modified":"2016-05-26T10:21:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T10:21:06","slug":"2016-corpus-christi-procession-pollensa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebestvillaspollensa.com\/blog\/2016-corpus-christi-procession-pollensa\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 CORPUS CHRISTI PROCESSION IN POLLENSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This Sunday 29<sup>th<\/sup> May, Pollensa hosts its colorful and traditional Corpus Christi procession, commonly known as the procession of \u201cLes \u00c0guiles i Sant Joan Pel\u00f3s\u201d here in Pollensa. It is an ancient religious festivity which nowadays is only celebrated here in the historical town of Pollensa with the dance of \u201cLes \u00c0guiles\u201d (two girls dressed in white and decked in gold jewellery) and \u201cSt. Joan Pel\u00f3s\u201d (Hairy St. John) with a mask, a red cape a cross in one hand and a lamb in his arms.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2199\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebestvillaspollensa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/l10pf001-300x139.jpg\" alt=\"l10pf001\" width=\"300\" height=\"139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebestvillaspollensa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/l10pf001-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thebestvillaspollensa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/l10pf001.jpg 646w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The celebration starts this Sunday 29<sup>th<\/sup> in the afternoon in the main square. The three main characters, the two \u201c\u00c0guiles\u201d and \u201cSt. Joan Pel\u00f3s\u201d dance throughout the winding streets of the town of Pollensa\u00a0followed by the local marching band, the three main characters\u2019 families as well as children who have received their first communion this year 2016.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2198\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebestvillaspollensa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/aguiles1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"aguiles1\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebestvillaspollensa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/aguiles1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thebestvillaspollensa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/aguiles1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is a much appreciated procession by the local people and which year after year attracts many tourists who join us to celebrate this traditional festivity.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at this video of the 2015 procession:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9D6FXDb4Su4\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9D6FXDb4Su4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are now spending your holidays in the island of Mallorca, do not miss this colorful procession this Sunday 29<sup>th<\/sup> May. If you wish to receive more details about this celebration, do not hesitate to contact us. We will be more than pleased to inform you about the Pollensa Corpus Christi Procession.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebestvillaspollensa.com\/\">The Best Villas Pollensa.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This Sunday 29th May, Pollensa hosts its colorful and traditional Corpus Christi procession, commonly known as the procession of \u201cLes \u00c0guiles i Sant Joan Pel\u00f3s\u201d here in Pollensa. It is an ancient religious festivity which nowadays is only celebrated here in the historical town of Pollensa with the dance of \u201cLes \u00c0guiles\u201d (two girls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebestvillaspollensa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebestvillaspollensa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebestvillaspollensa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebestvillaspollensa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebestvillaspollensa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebestvillaspollensa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2201,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebestvillaspollensa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions\/2201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebestvillaspollensa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebestvillaspollensa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebestvillaspollensa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebestvillaspollensa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}