Riders Wrestle Wild Horses at Traditional Mane-Shearing Festival
  • 7 years ago
The northern Spanish town of Sabucedo was flooded with tourists last weekend who wanted to witness the 'Rapa das Bestas', or 'Capture of the Beasts', where riders cut the manes of wild horses, which live in the mountains around Galicia. The festival, which dates back hundreds of years, takes place on the first weekend of July and is done in an effort to track and delouse the wild horses living in the mountains of northwestern Spain.
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