"Vacas das Cordas" celebrations
(Reuters) Updated: 2007-06-07 09:27

A villager hangs onto a bull in the town centre of Ponte da Lima,
June 6, 2007, as part of the annual "Vacas das Cordas" celebrations. The event,
a 350-year-old tradition, relives the moment when Christians turned a pagan
temple, dedicated to a goddess represented by a cow, into a church. Villagers
chain a bull to the church, then shower it with wine, before releasing it along
the village streets. [Reuters]
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