When strolling by the busy streets of Madrid, most would anticipate to see bustling individuals, heavy visitors, and maybe a number of bicycles or bikes within the combine.
Most of us wouldn’t anticipate to see hundreds of cattle traversing by the center of the town, however that’s precisely what occurs yearly.
In adhering to custom, shepherds information their flocks to their winter grounds following historical migration routes.
When the route was first established, the panorama didn’t look the identical because it does at this time, in the course of a metropolis of 6.5 million+ individuals. As an alternative, it was doubtless peaceable countryside that the shepherds used.
Regardless of the change in panorama, Spanish regulation permits farmers to proceed utilizing historical migration routes and in 1994, they determined to begin doing it once more.
In accordance with Reuters, shepherds gown in conventional clothes and information their flocks. They get pleasure from conventional people music and dancing alongside the route as effectively.
Individuals line the streets to look at the sheep cross by, and a few deliver their complete households to witness the spectacle.
Talking with Reuters, Graciela Gonzalez mentioned, “It’s marvellous. I come yearly and that is the primary yr I’ve introduced the youngsters so it’s wonderful.”
Watch the migration by Madrid within the video under:
