Tradition

Learn about the details of this ancient custom
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In the early 20th century, the children of the Albaicín and Realejo neighbourhoods set up little altars with Crosses in the streets and adorned them with embroidered shawls, ceramics, copper pots, and a pair of scissors stuck in an apple. The children begged onlookers for a chavico, which is the local name for a small coin known as an ochavo.