Romería del Cristo de la Salud en El Palmar – Boat Procession 2018

After ten years based in Valencia, we’d never managed to see the Romería del Cristo de la Salud, an annual boat procession held every August 4th on the Albufera Lake just south of the city. The Albufera is a protected wetland famous as the birthplace of paella, its bomba rice still grown along the shore, and it doubles as a key winter stopover for migrating birds. Watching the boats move slowly across the water finally closed that gap for us.