Donostia-San Sebastian : Drums by the thousand 01/18/2008 One event which, while difficult to classify, is a must on the festive calendar, is the Tamborrada or Drum Parade held in Donostia-San Sebastián.
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It cannot be determined with historic rigour in which year the first Tamborrada went out into the San Sebastian streets. Some people attribute its origin to the drumbeat made on buckets by maids and their companions, artisans and soldiers, while waiting for their turn before one of the three fountains that around 1836 supplied San Sebastian with water. It seems to be more correct that the Tamborrada was one of the groups of the San Sebastian Carnival. There were several before, e.g. the Valencian blind people Masquerade and the gardeners group in 1817 and the year after the Coppersmith group and the Tamborrada. The latter probably in 1836 at the height of a Carlist war. Read the rest here.
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