The Resurrection Sunday fiestas in Pilas, better
known as the little races, were declared of National
Tourist Interest in Andalusia because of their attraction
to the tourist, their antiquity and their culinary
peculiarities. These and other allures are more than
sufficient reason for you to visit Pilas on the border
of the provinces of Seville and Huelva, in a region
with several excellent wineries. But wait to try them
until after the end of the fiestas, which begin at
seven in the morning when the residents of Pila bid
to carry the handles of the processional floats of
God’s Child and the Virgin of Bethlehem during
the little races to the plaza Mayor.
There they are placed face to face and when the
standards of the brotherhoods are tipped, the carries
of both floats rush to meet one another in a sort
of symbolic embrace between the Virgin and her resurrected
Son.
In the afternoon the Virgin of Bethlehem is again
carried in a procession and the fiesta day ends with
a fireworks show in the Plaza de Belén.