"October 12th has been celebrated as the Feast of the Virgin of the Pillar since the beginning of the 19th Century...if not much earlier. Our Lady of the Pillar is one of Spain's patron saints, as we mentioned before. The reason for the date is that on that day in the year 1118, Alfonso I took back Zaragoza from the Moors."

Yes!, thank you!
It is a HUGE holiday in Zaragoza!!!, I used to participate in the main event 'la ofrenda de flores' when I was little and lived there....the traditional customes my sis and I wore had been in the family for a looong time, they were very pretty (but not too comfy to wear )

Just out of curiousity, do people there typically take the rest of the week off, if this holiday is on Oct. 12?
I like holidays that are `held' on a Friday or Monday, so it's a three-day weekend.