Lazarim Shrovetide

Lazarim's Shrovetide is considered one of Portugal's most traditional and genuine. Its festivities have such an ancient history that few dare to guess their origins. Demons, grotesque figures with zoomorphic physiognomies or witches, preferably with pointed horns and unpainted are the typical masks of the Shrovetide in Lazarim. Alder wood masks sculpted by artisans who symbolically record their imagination and cultural universe on their masks. There is no mask like the other. If the mask is the pulse of the earth, caretos are its personification. Men and women wear the masks as well as suits made of straw, corn husks, dry leaves, old rags and rattles. Devils on the loose that boldly rattle those who walk the streets.