In cattle ranch it honors the young of the pig, which has caused that raises above for the carnicas industries installed there.

But of outstanding, pretty Fuentesaúco but and the famous thing they are its supervisory celebrations of Visitación (the first week of July) is a celebration around the bull with its famous ones you frighten in the meadow of the reguera.

To also emphasize the Easter with varied processions and mainly the security to be in one of the calm corners but of the world.
 

Fuentesaúco: a natural and select gastronomy

The name of Fuentesaúco resonates specially by its chick-peas, by his you frighten bullfighting and by the last name Thief, who to many takes to misinterpret the saucano saying that says: the good chick-pea and the good Thief of Fuentesaúco are. A last name, by the others, lost or e'migre' to others lares.

But Fuentesaúco is a nucleus with rank of villa, that enjoys all the basic services and an enviable interprovincial intercommunication, as well as of capital churches, big rambling houses and a certain cultural patrimony, like the theater and the cinema, that waits to that somebody espabile. Like the bullring, that gives the impression of being the work of the Dump. The air of "a Castilian town" and a wide-awake and encouraging summery atmosphere has Fuentesaúco social.

The chick-pea is a standard considered by the population like the best thing of the world, and with such persistence it is defended. In these dates the handfuls begin to see themselves on somewhat parched garbanzales because the drought appropriated east year the fields and the regatos. Nobody adventure to be predicted the impact of the drought in the production, but is considered important. Nevertheless, the loss of the thickness will not repel in the quality of a product for which praises are not scrimped. "They are elegant, are like cream".

The average production of this leguminosa is in the 800 kilos by hectare, in dry land; and between 1,200 and 1,400 in irrigated land. It if they do not undergo some attack of rage or fly. From the cooperative "the Zamoranos" is advised to the agriculturists who watch after the treatment of the harvests to avoid the seat of the diseases. Test of the quality of the saucano chick-pea is that they occupy a preferred place in surfaces like the English Court.

Nevertheless, the Denomination of Origin has not been obtained no matter how hard it has been fought on the individual. The Meeting of Castile and Leon surrounds in the bureaucracy the proceedings when trying the inclusion of zones of little garbancera tradition and, this way, they have spent four years. To it the disloyal competition is united of those who foreign chick-peas with the name of Fuentesaúco pocket without flesh color. "we are attending a market that it does not have respect by anything" affirms to Florencio Rodriguez.

Agrarian extension investigates, in a test range, on the prestigious product and exists a certain interest to take hold itself to the results to apply them.

Saucana agriculture is complemented with another the so worthy of table and even more profitable alternative product: espárrago. About three hundred thousand kilos leave the Earth to tin themselves under a Navarrese company/signature.

But the agricultural sector is much more: cereals, mainly, wheat and barley, peas, potatoes, beza and even lentils. And there where the irrigated land allows it, beet.

The cattle sector prevails in the villa like another one of the great pillars, is enough to know the post animals that registers the nucleus. The pig occupies one of the preferred places with enough more than six thousand heads between cebones, mothers and tostones; the ovine surpasses the 1,200, the ovine one goes up to around the 600 heads, the equino the 100 and donkeys as soon as a ten. With being few, the asnal shutdown of Fuentesaúco is well-known.

The importance of the pig both has its repercussion in saucanos slaughter houses that suppose one of the labor deposits more substitutes.

This way, agriculture and the cattle ranch heighten and engrandecen the gastronomy and the good saucana table, which it is possible to be enjoyed in anyone the inns and restaurants.

The pensioners are a sector of weight. It is only necessary to watch as much in that they remain to the fresh air, in the seat greater as the woods of next to the hermitage like in the club of pensioners. The associate add more than two hundred and in the center they find a little while of special and close coexistence.

"Before we worked more than now, we harvested, to sickle, from the being by day until he did not see myself, we beat with trillos and we slept in full barns of cockroaches and mice. Now everything is life, dulzura and hope ours "expresses in a group formed by Miguel Hernandez, Jose Perez, Antonio Luis, Manuel Aparicio, Alexander Hernandez and Juan de God.

When removing to collation you also frighten them praise the anger of before, "with people who left with sticks to the bulls and there she occurred to bulls, horses and riders if they neglected. He was braver. Now they are more boring ". They follow the group shelling the life of long ago and affirm that "before the fifth part of chick-peas was seeded, had more of the double of inhabitants because the houses had up to ten and twelve children and closed the doors with the feet when sleeping, and the people had less badness than now. The neighbors were like relatives. Now good morning, good afternoon... and he is worth ".

With respect to the vineyard, the grapes grew in most of the municipality, as much era the vineyard "that was to go to Villanueva to look for straw". Of that vitivinícola vigor they are left the profusion of warehouses that counts the saucana villa and that today they pass through a process of abandonment or carelessness in his majority. So it is his be in favor that "some have sold them by 15,000 pesetas or of the mere cost of the papeleo that entails the change of titularidad".

Juan de God, who already lets notice the weight of the age, was a man "of great humanity" say his companions. "It walked long time with false mules, animals that threw kicks or they bit to you". And, between its fates, the group remembers the times in which they were going in donkey to sell melons and watermelons to Salamanca. He was even walked with the car by the greater seat of the city charra.

Miguel Hernandez?El Colonel? he comments, with jocosidad, that got rid to go to mili not to give the stature. "a sergeant measured to me with a meter of bricklayers and he kicked to me in the ass. You for house, he said. After married I grew four or five centimeters ".

The exact NOMENCLATURE of the celebrations would have to be Visitación of Our Lady to Santa Isabel. Nevertheless, the town briefly knows it under varied denominations: times like Visitación and others like Santa Isabel, to droughts. A romance armuñés, that it gathers practically all the celebrations of the zone, says on the matter of the one of Fuentesaúco:

... San Clemente is in Pego,

like in Aldeanueva

and Visitación in the Source

that she is the one that all takes it...

And he will not be others to stress that they are not the "supervisory celebrations either" as often we can state, since these are under the invocation of the Virgin of Old and the veneration of a very old image that is guarded in the hermitage of its name, with date of Monday of Pentecostés, that corresponds approximately to a month before the Visitación or, said of another way, towards day 2 of June.

The CELEBRATIONS OF the Visitación in Fuentesaúco have one double dimension: they are essentially popular but they count on the institutional cover from long ago.

At the moment the chronology begins a month before festejo when, after to have celebrated the corresponding procession of the Pattern that, as it goes this is the Virgin of the Old one, the town is used to appearing in the City council before the local authorities to express its desire of which the next celebrations of the Visitación with the fundamental ingredient of the bulls are celebrated. The plenary taking notices of the request and, in more of the times, it advances his intention to take them to good port, with the rejoicing and vociferio of the personnel.

Day 24 of June, that Baptist corresponds with the festividad of San Juan , is come to announce its proclamation with pregón of celebrations - the year who is occasion -. From the twelve in the morning hangs of the main row of balconies of the City council the denominated "Mariseca" , that in fact is three announcing posters of imminent bullfighting events, one of which recently to disappear. All this ceremonial goes accompanied of music missile technology and programmings of hand. The Seat Greater era now, the epicenter of local new features and acquired a certain particular slight taste with the installation of talanqueras.

Preceding immediate Friday to the bullfighting events, that years ago always agreed with day 1, eves were celebrated the calls . They are of essentially religious type because it consists of a parade of the City council accompanied by band and all the town that wishes it from the own Consistorio to the hermitage of the Virgin of the Old one which it is in the outskirts of the locality. There one is sung to him saves mariana.

Next, the retinue also returns with support of music, rocks and town in general in the direction of an enormous extension of grasslands that is in the outskirts of the town in the direction of denominated Toro Prado of the Regueras where the head of cattle graze that will have themselves to along with fight the next days the halters, and it is speculated on more or less ceremonially on the varied fierceness of the astados ones. All this herd takes shelter each dusk in corrals next to the grasslands that are of municipal property.

This same day, to eleven at night, a bonfire in addition to missile technology and fireworks was burned. Meanwhile a popular verbena is developed. In the last years there is a clear tendency to replace such ingredients of the festive repertoire by desenjaule.

Formerly days 2 and 3 of July the typical ones were celebrated you frighten , with beginning to ten in the morning in the Prado of the Regueras. Basically, it consists of preventing by the town of a foot that the herd of brave head of cattle, sent by the caballistas against a human wall, exceeds it and between a the urban nucleus. This ritual is repeated up to three times.

The natural frame next to the highway of Toro, a beautiful panoramic visibility between enormous a dense blue sky and a green one, the emotion of sends and the materialized atmosphere of personnel, motley in landscape and civilians, to more than a great row in abundance, gives the accompanying note to the spectacle not without hearing at critical moments very peculiar shouts feminine, very native, very pure-blooded, that have certain relation with bereber in opinion of experts in anthropology. After usual the three attempts, people leave the meadow and raise for the town since next she comes herself to the confinement of the head of cattle brave by the urban helmet during the rest in the morning and in the evening, is celebrated bullfight of young bulls to the usual style in bullring qualified to the effect. In the last years there is lost the custom and tradition to celebrate in later days the call dances of the meadow. IT IS VERY PROVEN of all whatever has said itself that the celebrations of the Visitación of Our Lady in Fuentesaúco have a wall-plate of several centuries and, concretely, from day 17 of June of 1596.