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The Pearl FactoryTraditions and festivities
Different ancestral traditions connected to music and dance can be seen in the municipality's popular fiestas. The winter fiesta cycle begins on January 16 and 17 with the Beneïdes de Sant Antoni Abat or blessings over the animals. Masked devils come out on the streets playing cowbells and dancing to the rhythm of traditional music.
At night, bonfires are lit which burn until dawn and the villagers congregate around them to eat botifarrons or blood sausages. A procession and the traditional blessings over animals take place the following day.
The Fiesta of Sa Ximbomba, an unusual percussion instrument that uses friction to produce sound, takes place in Son Macià on Carnival Saturday. The village's patron saint's day celebrations are held on August 15, la Mare de Déu d'Agost.
The arrival of spring is celebrated in Manacor during the last week of May and the first week of June. In addition to the country fair, the most striking folklore event in these fiestas is the dance of the Cossiers, of Arab influence, one of the municipality's most important folk dances. The Cossiers, written reference to whom dates from the seventeenth century, perform on the first day of the Spring Fiestas, as well as during the Fiesta of Sant Crist.
The dance of los moretons, documented since 1854, is performed during the fiesta of the convent of Sant Domènec, which takes place in Manacor on May 24. Six children are the protagonists of the celebration, which also has other traditional elements: el Alicorn (unicorn) and giant statues with enormous heads.
Manacor also celebrates a popular fiesta in the Fartàritx quarter on the second Sunday in May and the patron saint's day fiesta of Sant Jaume on July 25th.
Porto Cristo, as well as the rest of the island's coastal villages, celebrates the patron saint's day fiestas of la Mare de Déu del Carme with a maritime procession on July 16.
