Festival of bonfires and horses
During the annual celebration in honor of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of animals, revelers ride their horses through the narrow cobble-stoned streets of San Bartolome de Pinares in Spain to purify and protect the animals with the smoke and flames of the bonfires for the year ahead.
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A horseman jumps over a bonfire during the opening of the traditional religious festival called Luminarias in 2018.
Thick smoke fills the cobbled streets of San Bartolome de Pinares as the clip-clop of galloping hooves edges ever closer to a bonfire crackling nearby.
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A horse jumps through a bonfire during the festival in 2016.
According to tradition that dates back 500 years, people rode their horses through the narrow cobblestone streets of this small village to purify the animals with the smoke of the bonfires.
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A boy climbs on to a pile of branches to feed bonfires.
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A man rides a horse through a bonfire in 2018. Horses burst through the soaring flames of night-time bonfires in a dramatic annual festival.
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A woman braids the hair of a horse before the ritual in honor of Saint Anthony the Abbot, the patron saint of animals, in 2018.
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A man rides a horse through a bonfire during Las Luminarias Festival in 2017.
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Men ride horses through the smoke of a bonfire.
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A horse stands near a fire.
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A man drinks as he rides a horse during the festival.
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A horseman jumps over a bonfire during the celebrations of the traditional religious festival Luminarias in 2017.
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A woman braids a horse's mane before it takes part in the festival.
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A woman braids a horse's mane.
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Two horses stand in a field before the annual celebration in the village of San Bartolome de los Pinares, about 100 km (62 miles) northwest of Madrid.
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A horseman and a child jump over a bonfire in the Spanish central village of San Bartolome de Pinares in 2017.
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A man rides a horse past the Cascorro statue in San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain.
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A man rides a horse through a bonfire during Las Luminarias Festival in Spain in 2017.
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A horse wears a cover with the Spanish colors to protect its tail from the flames of bonfires.
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Men ride their horses through a bonfire.
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A man rides a horse through smoke.
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During the annual celebration revelers ride their horses through bonfires in the narrow cobble-stoned streets of San Bartolome de Pinares, Spain.
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A man rides his horse before the annual religious celebration on the night before Saint Anthony's.
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A man and his horse prepare to ride through flames.
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People gather around a fire during the annual religious celebration on the night before Saint Anthony's in the village of San Bartolome de los Pinares.
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A man rides a horse through a bonfire.