{"id":29090,"date":"2026-02-08T22:45:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T22:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manilva.life\/?p=29090"},"modified":"2026-02-08T22:46:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T22:46:48","slug":"sardine-funeral-rounds-off-estepona-carnival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manilva.life\/es\/sardine-funeral-rounds-off-estepona-carnival\/","title":{"rendered":"El funeral de la sardina pone fin al Carnaval de Estepona"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/manilva.life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Sardine-Funeral-1024x664.jpg\" alt=\"Sardine Burial in Estepona\" class=\"wp-image-29091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manilva.life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Sardine-Funeral-1024x664.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/manilva.life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Sardine-Funeral-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manilva.life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Sardine-Funeral-768x498.jpg 768w, https:\/\/manilva.life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Sardine-Funeral-648x420.jpg 648w, https:\/\/manilva.life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Sardine-Funeral-341x220.jpg 341w, https:\/\/manilva.life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Sardine-Funeral-640x415.jpg 640w, https:\/\/manilva.life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Sardine-Funeral-681x442.jpg 681w, https:\/\/manilva.life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Sardine-Funeral.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A medida que el Carnaval llega a su fin en Estepona, el ambiente pasa de las lentejuelas y la risa a un simulacro de dolor, porque es hora del Entierro de la Sardina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Esta maravillosamente teatral tradici\u00f3n marca el final oficial del Carnaval y el comienzo de la Cuaresma. Sus or\u00edgenes se remontan a la Espa\u00f1a del siglo XVIII, a menudo vinculados al reinado del rey Carlos III, cuando se informa que se enterr\u00f3 un cargamento de sardinas en mal estado a las afueras de Madrid. Lo que comenz\u00f3 como un incidente desafortunado evolucion\u00f3 hacia la s\u00e1tira y, finalmente, hacia una de las costumbres m\u00e1s coloridas de Espa\u00f1a.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En Estepona, una sardina gigante de cart\u00f3n piedra, llamada Alicia, es paseada por el Recinto Ferial, acompa\u00f1ada de \u201cdolientes\u201d vestidos de negro, con velos dram\u00e1ticos y demostraciones exageradas de dolor. Hay risas, m\u00fasica y mucho lamento juguet\u00f3n, porque este funeral es todo menos solemne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Y entonces normalmente llega el final: se quema la sardina, las llamas iluminan el cielo nocturno en una despedida simb\u00f3lica de los excesos y los placeres de la temporada de Carnaval, el fuego representa la purificaci\u00f3n, la renovaci\u00f3n y la transici\u00f3n a un tiempo del a\u00f1o m\u00e1s reflexivo. Pero que no te enga\u00f1en, siempre hay un brillo en el aire. Porque en Estepona, hasta la despedida se hace con estilo, humor y un fuerte sentido de comunidad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lamentablemente, las condiciones meteorol\u00f3gicas de este a\u00f1o impidieron la cremaci\u00f3n, pero Alicia tuvo una despedida ruidosa y colorida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Entierro de Sardinas en Estepona\" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WxiknaIr_zA?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Carnival draws to a close in Estepona, the mood shifts from glitter and laughter to mock sorrow \u2014 because it\u2019s time for the Entierro de la Sardina, the Sardine Funeral. This wonderfully theatrical tradition marks the official end of Carnival and the beginning of Lent. Its origins go back to 18th-century Spain, often linked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,301,371,2,152,222],"tags":[3004,3005,3007,3006],"class_list":["post-29090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-estepona","category-event","category-featured","category-ferias-and-fiestas","category-news","tag-alicia","tag-entierro-de-la-sardina","tag-funeral","tag-sardine-burial"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manilva.life\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manilva.life\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manilva.life\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manilva.life\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manilva.life\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/manilva.life\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29093,"href":"https:\/\/manilva.life\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29090\/revisions\/29093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manilva.life\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manilva.life\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manilva.life\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manilva.life\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}