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Bookmark & shareEach town and city in Nicaragua has annual celebrations for its patron saint. These fiestas patronales include distinctive masked processions and mock battles involving folkloric figures satirizing the Spanish conquistadors. The most famous of these saints' days are held in honor of San Sebastián (January) and Santiago (July 25).
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