{"id":7405,"date":"2021-08-20T00:04:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T22:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/the-rocas\/"},"modified":"2021-11-23T15:28:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T14:28:23","slug":"the-rocas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digitalhistory.unite.it\/en\/themes\/festivals\/the-corpus-christi-of-valencia\/the-rocas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rocas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The Rocas <\/h1>\n<div class=\"testo\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The <em>Rocas<\/em> are 11 wooden processional wagons, which are boat-shaped, on which many groups of statues are installed with the effigies of saints or depictions of biblical events. It is an extraordinary apparatus (elsewhere called <em>castillos<\/em>), transported by shoulder with litters or dragged with the aid of horses. This event originated in the early modern period, although the custom to prepare triumphal wagons is older. Similar pageants, in fact, were used during the triumphal entry into the city by medieval kings. While in the past such representations also included the participation of living people, after the <a href=\"\/en\/territories\/international-routes\/painters-and-works-of-art-between-italy-and-spain\/at-the-origin-of-the-painting-of-the-golden-age\/counter-reformation\/\" title=\"Counter-Reformation\">Counter-Reformation<\/a> they have given way to more composed ceremonies with statues and statuary groups. A similar tradition is present in <a href=\"\/en\/territories\/urban-routes\/museo-nacional-de-escultura-of-valladolid\/juan-de-roelass-alegoria-de-la-virgen-inmaculada\/seville\/\" title=\"Seville\">Seville<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The <em>Rocas<\/em> which parade (some carried on shoulders, others horse-drawn) before the Blessed Sacrament have been built in different historical periods. Some of them, the oldest, evoke particular moments in Spanish history: the <em>Rocas<\/em> built in the sixteenth century, in fact, with the exception of the <em>Pur\u00edsima<\/em>, which celebrates the Immaculate Conception, refer to the time of Muslim rule and the <em><a href=\"\/en\/territories\/regional-routes\/don-quijote\/on-the-trail-of-a-damsel-dulcinea-of-el-toboso\/reconquista\/\" title=\"Reconquista\">Reconquista<\/a><\/em> (<em>Roca San Miguel<\/em>, <em>Roca Diable<\/em> and <em>Roca de la Fe<\/em>). The <em>Rocas<\/em> named after Saint Vicente Ferrer and the <em>Sant\u00edsima Trinidad<\/em> date back to the seventeenth century, however. The nineteenth-century pageants are dedicated to the city of <a href=\"\/en\/territories\/regional-routes\/duke-of-lerma\/denia-and-the-rise-of-its-marquis\/valencia\/\" title=\"Valencia\">Valencia<\/a> and a symbolic portrait of Fame, while those made in the twentieth century depict a prominent citizen of Valencia (San Juan de Ribera) and the patron saint of the city: the <em>Mare de Deu dels Desamparats<\/em> (whose <em>roca<\/em> was built in 1995 in Baroque style). In the second millennium, most recently, upon the initiative of the friends of <em>Corpus<\/em> of the city of Valencia, the <em>Roca del Santo C\u00e1liz<\/em> (on whose wagon some biblical characters are drawn) has been introduced in the parade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"\/en\/themes\/festivals\/the-corpus-christi-of-valencia\/\" title=\"The Corpus Christi of Valencia\">&lt;&lt;&lt;&#8212;back to The <em>Corpus Christi<\/em> of Valencia<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rocas The Rocas are 11 wooden processional wagons, which are boat-shaped, on which many groups of statues are installed with the effigies of saints or depictions of biblical events. 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