The event took place at 12 noon on Moore Square. The first cows have passed and then it has been the turn of the mares. The latter under the direction of the mayor of the town, Jon Zubizarreta. "We began to say that cows would pass like in previous years, and I would also say a few mares. At least store for memory what has been a very different year," said Zubizarreta. So far, Zubizarreta has been working on census preparation and giving worm medicine to mares. -It's the same mares that leave. They go to the barrier that makes the limit with the municipality of Abaltzisketa and from there they make the way to the pastures,” he said.
Today has been an unusual day in Larraitz. The Aralar Grasslands Opening Holiday, which this year could not be celebrated, has brought many people together. It's really curious to see empty all the parking in front of Larraitz's barrier. "On the one hand it gets wonderful, but we've been doing it for quite a few weeks now, and we're getting a little used to looking at it like this. You only see some farmer and the loggers," said the mayor of Abaltzisketa. From tomorrow you will be able to take walks and do physical exercise. "We are a small town and therefore have no time limit," Zubizarreta said in a statement from Europe Press. "The top of the Txindoki is within the municipality of Abaltzisketa, so we understand that we can go to the Txindoki. We are a small town with few resources, but once and for all it gives the advantage."
Herd from Amezketa to Arritzaga
For Pastor Jabier Agirrezabala of Villabona, he is not going to change much the march he tends to carry out today. Accompanied by his son, he has led his herd around Arritzaga, the Bokarta Cottage. "It is the most beautiful day of the year for me," said Agirrezabala, who has been convinced. In the last twelve years it has followed the same route on 1 May, and this year it has also done so. The absence of an Opening Feast of Pastures does not affect him so much: they stay on the edge until the afternoon and in other years they do not go down to the party.
The state of lockdown does not affect Agirrezabala so much in his daily work, but it does affect the sale of cheese. In Aralar the sheep will have until October. "This year there is a very good mountain. He's made a mild winter and there's a lot of weed," he said. For the time being, there are no mountaineers in the grasses of the Sierra. -Better for us. People come up with a dog, and now we'll be calmer.
