La Cuaresmera

The 2025 Cuaresmera

The Museum of Commerce presents visitors who come to its rooms with the 2025 Cuaresmera. This year, the design is created by artist Chema Alonso.
The Cuaresmera, also known as Patarrona, is a traditional calendar that used to be hung in the windows of traditional grocery stores to announce the sale...

THE CUARESMERA 2019

On Sunday, March 1st, a popular celebration was held in the Museum of Commerce square, marking the arrival of the Lenten period. The event, organized by La Hermandad del Perdón, the Prodesi neighborhood association, and the Museum of Commerce, was attended by the Councillor for Tourism, Fernando Cas...

La Cuaresmera 2020

Lent – a forty-day period of fasting and abstinence from meat, preceding Easter and beginning on Ash Wednesday – is already documented in 13th-century French literature and in 14th-century Castile by Archpriest of Hita in El Libro del Buen Amor.

In the 17th century, the popular representation of...

CUARESMERA 2021

The Museum of Commerce offers visitors who come to its halls, starting Wednesday, February 17, a cut-out drawing of a Cuaresmera, a symbolic representation that was hung in shops and homes to count the passing of the seven weeks of the Lenten period.

The Cuaresmera was traditionally hung in a house...