Program

It has been celebrated since time immemorial, the day of the Immaculate Conception, throughout the night from 7 to 8. A large drum is used to carry out the prayer, hence the name of the festival.

Through its streets, testimony of the Muslim presence, the image of the Virgen de la Aurora is processed at 24, 4 and 6 in the morning. This tradition, with roots in the old Cofradía de las Ánimas, consists of an “awake” that, with a great tambora, the Cambileños perform with songs of dawn: “We have come looking for the Aurora, who say that it walks through this place; picking flowers and jasmine for the devotees who are going to pray. The “tan tan tan tararán tan” of the tambora, rhythmic, sonorous and energetic reaches the soul of the people of Cambodia. During the procession, the neighbors distribute sweets, liquors, etc., among the penitents.

Years ago, “la tambora” would also go out on Christmas Eve and they would go through the streets singing a song alluding to the souls in purgatory, for which they were at the same time begging for alms. When they passed in front of a house in which there was recent mourning they did not stop because the song, even if it was for such a beneficial purpose, went wrong with the severe mourning of before.

In not distant times, the Mass of Dawn was still celebrated very early. Some years passed a horrible cold because the frost fell on the devotees who went to the hermitage of the Lord of the Marble to look for the image of the Aurora to take it to the church and there celebrate mass this day of the Immaculate Conception.