RAPA DAS BESTAS

• Photographer
  Adrián Domínguez

Once upon a time two sisters offered to San Lorenzo, patron of the parish, two mares -bestas- of property if defending them of pest contagion (the legend of the origin of this affair is in fact a great plague that devastated the region). In the period of the plague the sisters took refuge in a cottage not so far from the church. After the plague fulfilled their promise, giving the horses to the clergyman, who let them free in the forest, that in time multiplied by the nearby mountains (...). The oral tradition could be based on any of the pests which no record that occurred since the second half of the sixteenth century. Within the work done in the -curro- are particularly important tasks of internal parasite of animals, improving the sanitary conditions of the horses. South of the township there are located 13 herds of wild horses in the mountains of regional council (as well neighbors speak about a herd of extremely wild horses that have not been down the mountain since more than 20 years). The current -curro- of Sabucedo was built in 1996 (formerly it was done in a stones square close to the church), with an expansion in 2012 giving it capacity for 1,500 spectators.