Merida, the City of Infinite Fables

On December 10th, the feast of Santa Eulalia, a dense mist that the popular tradition links to the patroness of the city (which is also true of others, such as Oviedo and Barcelona). Known as "the mists of the martyr", the collective memory has kept the memory of the cruel death of this young woman Eulalia. Her martyrdom, in the midst of the great persecution of Diocletian and Galerius, left a deep popular impression since the beginning of the f…