With Spring in the air, dancing and singing around campfires and the romance of travelling by horse and carriage it's little wonder that so many Rocieros are actually "Made In El Rocio". This couple take an intimate moment behind a a wagon away from the travelling troop.
Every late May, or early June, in villages and cities across Andalucia (especially the western part), you can see the locals gear up their covered wagons and don traditional Andalucian clothing - broad-brimmed hats and traje corto for men (grey, brown or black trousers, often with Western-style leather chaps, and boots), and flamenco dresses for women - a slightly different style, with a fuller skirt than the fitted Feria dresses - to head off to the El Roció shrine, accompanied by their own virgin on her simpecado (float).
A pilgrim dressed in the traditional flamenco dress rides her horse across a field of sunflowers on her way to the town of El Rocio.
