The Museum of Commerce presents its visitors with a Lenten

The Museum of Commerce gives visitors who come to its rooms, from Wednesday, February 17, the cut-out drawing of a Lenten, symbolic representation that was hung in shops and houses to account for the passage of the seven weeks of the Lenten period. Lent was usually hung in a window of the house on Ash Wednesday and every Sunday of Lent a leg was torn off. The Easter Sunday of Resurrection was sawn or burned with the last leg that remained and celebrated that day of jubilation with a succulent meal in which the meat in the form of lamb, sausages or hornazo again made its presence. Lent was also exhibited in the windows of shops and supermarkets to announce the sale of salted cod, protagonist in the Lenten waking time, because it was the only one that arrived in Castile -preserved in salting- and that showed great variety in its preparation. Remember that the Museum of Commerce opens to the public only in the morning, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.