El Rocío y el turismo de Peregrinación

The word Rocío is full of meanings; a virgin, a pilgrimage, a small village ¿all neighbours of the marshes of the river Guadalquivir¿ and named after a microclimatic phenomenon, the daily and prolific presence of water in its minimal expression, Dew. But this name recalls, over all other, the devotion for the holy virgin our Señora del Rocío, ¿Patron Saint of Almonte¿ and to the annual Pentecostal pilgrimage ¿the Big Rocío. This pilgrimage has experimented an enormous growth in the last fifty years, every year attracting pilgrims from more distant places, but its origins are very antique and it has always developed together with the village.