article_snippet.sent: The annual May 1 celebration is a centuries' old tradition, involving music and dancing through the streets, believed by some to be an ancient pagan fertility ritual which heralds the arrival of spring.
article_snippet.sent: The event itself is educational.'
article_snippet.sent: People who once lived there come from the other side of the world to take part.
highlights_snippet.sent: the festival is believed to be an ancient pagan ritual that heralds the arrival of spring .