Source: Salamanca City Council.
He Museum of Commerce and Industry will, once again, give all visitors the Lent 2026. Starting on February 18, Ash Wednesday, the museum center will distribute this traditional popular calendar, whose design this year bears the artist’s signature Maria Chrysostom.
The calendar was hung in shops and homes to count the passage of the seven weeks of the Lentperiod of fasting and abstinence from meat that precedes Easter week. The figure of the old woman with seven legs and the foods typical of the time of religious vigil, vegetables and fish, used to be produced in cardboard or wood. In grocery store windows it was placed visible to advertise the sale of salted cod.
The seven legs They represent the seven weeks, which is the total time of the Lord’s fast in the desert. The calendar, therefore, must be trimmed one leg weekly until reaching the Easter Sundaywhen the day was celebrated with a succulent meal in which meat appeared in the form of lamb, sausages or hornazo.
From the 17th century The image of the old woman with seven legs became popular, becoming so popular that even Picasso drew a well-known and controversial Lentthe prickly pear.
