TITLE: Luminarias de San Bartolomé de Pinares

The day before the San Antón festival in San Bartolomé de Pinares, the locals gather around large bonfires to carry out the ritual of purifying animals that dates back to the 18th century, and which was intended to protect them from epidemics. After being blessed by the priest, they begin a kind of 'procession', each rider with his horse through the streets of the town, passing or crossing each of the bonfires they find.

AUTHOR: Abel F. Ros (Spain)

I am professional photographer since 1999 based in Cartagena, in the South East of Spain. I have worked in 5 regional newspapers for more than 15 years and I have published in some of the main national newspapers in Spain. I have been a correspondent for the sports newspaper Marca for 20 years, and I collaborate with agencies such as Área11, Alamy and Rex-ShutterStock. I have covered the Mediterranean Games in Tarragona 2018, the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020 adn Paris 2024. After a term working as a photographer in an institutional communications team, I'm back to working as a freelancer.