Photo of the Day

Picture of a crowded street with women carrying baskets of bread on their heads
April 30, 2022

Bread Parade

Women carry baskets of huge loaves of bread on their heads as a part of celebrations during the Feast of the Holy Spirit in Ribeiras, Pico Island, Portugal. This photo appeared in a February 1976 story about the Azores, an archipelago of nine islands off the coast of Portugal.
Photograph by O. Louis Mazzatenta, Nat Geo Image Collection

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