Fiesta de San Isidro
Each year, for a period of several days around May 15, the city of Madrid celebrates its patron saint with the Fiesta de San Isidro. But before Isidro was a ‘San’, he was Isidore the farmer (Isidro Labrador), a Spanish day laborer born to peasant Catholics in eleventh century Madrid. Spending much of his life in the service of the More info