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Fiestas Patronales Santo Domingo de Heredia in Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo de Heredia's patronales open with La Alborada, a pre-dawn cimarrona-and-masquerade procession marking the August 8 feast of Santo Domingo de Guzman, followed by eighteen days of music, food and parades that include giant five-meter masquerades, boyero oxcart processions and a later October date tied to the Virgen del Rosario.
Santo Domingo de Heredia opens its patron saint festival with La Alborada, a pre-dawn procession in which cimarronas and masquerades move through the town center to mark the feast day of Santo Domingo de Guzman on August 8, before an eighteen-day run of music, gastronomy and parades that also touches the October 7 feast of the Virgen del Rosario.