1969

Rovena Sanglass motorcycle.

Tossa de Mar, Spain

Near the Cap d'Or Hotel where I stayed for a month.

Hotel Cap d'Or

What a beautiful spot!

I met many people from all over Europe while staying here.

Festival of Corpus Christi, Tossa de Mar, Spain, 1969

The Corpus Christi is a celebration of the Catholic Church meant for the veneration 

of the Eucharist. It is a movable feast of the liturgical calendar, that  takes place on 

the following Thursday of the eighth Pentecost. This medieval fiesta has a marked 

ostentatious character, closer to pagan celebrations than to any religious one.

This character is made evident in Tossa with the flower mats, as an exaltation of the 

vegetation of the month of May.

Corpus Christi is celebrated every year in Tossa on the actual date (and not on the 

following Sunday as other villages do).  The town center streets are adorned with 

flower mats and altars, and in the afternoon there is the mass and the procession, 

that will move along the adorned streets. (Tossa de Mar Tourist Office)