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Fiestas
The festivities are in honor of the patron of the town, San Antolin, and are celebrated from 1st of September untill the 8th. Among all the acts that are performed the most popular one is the one of the "Geese".
 * San Antolines

The performed the 5th of September and  you have to stay as long as possible hold to a goose that is hanging from a rope that crosses the harbor from one dock to another. The rope has one side fixed and in the other side there is a group of men pulling the rope to raise it and they loose to lower it. In the middle of the rope there is a goose drenched in oil (formerly the bird was alive). There are a lot of boats that take part on this act and all of them have to go, in the order the number they got in the morning, to the place the goose is and one participant of each boat has to grab the goose from the neck as strongly as possible. Once the boat has avanced to the front, the men on the end of the rope start pulling from it and lifting the goose with the menber grabbed to it. Once the participants arrives to the top, the men let him drop from there, and rapidly, they pull again making him go up again. They continue like that until the participant lets the goose go of or until the neck of the goose gets broken. And the one who makes most elevations wins the competition.

This day is documented since the V century and it is said that its origins are older. This act has been celebrated since 1877.

Geese run, as it is algo called, was also made in the ground,(as it is done nowadays in Marquina Jemén). This act has suffer man changes during the history because in the past all the boats were sailed by 13 sailors. Only sailors were allow to participate and the speed, as the endowment of the boat, were very regulated formed by 12 oarsmen and the captain. If there was any dude about the winner they arranged a race that went over the island.

There is controversy in this act because some people, specially animalistic, they put themselves against it and they ask for the abolition in favor of animal's rights.

The clothing that is often used is the denim workwear. Formerly combined with a white shirt.