Pilgrims carry and touch the Virgin of El Rocio during a procession around
the shrine of El Rocio, in the Donana national park, during the annual
pilgrimage in which devotees converge on the village of Almonte to pay
homage, June 9, 2003. Every spring, in the biggest romeria - or pilgrimage -
in Spain, hundreds of thousands of devotees of the Virgin del Rocio take
part in the celebration which combines religious fervor and festive colour
as pilgrims make their way to the shrine on horseback or in brightly
decorated carriages, in multi-coloured caravans that wind across the
Andalusian countryside. REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo PP03060026

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