In Villanueva of Vera, commune of the north of Cáceres, takes place the carnival with what is popular Pero Palo. The festivity begins Sunday of fiftieth and it widens until Tuesday of the Carnival.

This ceremonial carnivals which takes place since the medieval, has a mysterious origin, because although many is the theories on this character, that if is a guerrilla of the Average Age, a robber or including the Juan gift of the sector of Vera, none of they could be proven.

Pero Palo is a monigote filling of straw and its made head of roots, will turra. This head is preserved one year at the other, so that thus, it always preserves the same aspect. In their particular face they underline large eyes, moustache and button. Carry a traditional combination, of black rag, hat and large shoes.

The festivity begin previous Sunday with that of Carnival which is when one walks the "head" Pero Palo by all the people. This exhibition public advertisement which acts of festival is next.

The most significant aspects that this popular festival are developed throughout Saturday, of Sunday and especially "fatty Tuesday", which is the day that have place the most spectacular acts.

Saturday of Carnival the captain (nobody charged to support the festivity) is the person charged to excavate the holes where the staircase will be placed on which Pero Palo it will spend its last days.

Once finished, one carries to him in the larger Place, where it publicly subjected to the “switch” or species of staircase that the captain (nobody charged to support the festivity with what is Capitan) will have placed previously. The people, equipped with regional combinations, take share actively, by singing coplas and while dancing of Jotas, always accompanied by what is tamborilero.

Sunday and Monday of Carnival one walks Pero Palo by all the people, always accompanied by those "Peropaleros" and what is tamborilero. When it turns over to the place it they is made "beans", in which the monigote receives the mockeries of the collaborators.

"Fatty" Tuesday, great day in Villanueva, takes place the most significant and spectacular acts of the Carnival. The Bullfight of the Elections, in which a popular jury condemns to Pero Palo, the Walk, the offertories of marrows, the oath of Flag and finally, while starting to make night, the coat and burn it Pero Palo, between the tears and the laughter of the assisting public. To finish all they dance with they are Jotas.