The traditional “Burial of the Sardine,” a ceremony to mark the end of carnival celebrations and beginning of 40 days of the season of Lent, which precedes Easter, took place in the Spanish capital Madrid, on March 6, 2019. /VCG Photo

The ceremony consists of a parade that parodies a funeral in which a symbolic figure in the shape of a sardine is burned. /VCG Photo

It symbolizes the burial of the past and the rebirth of society. /VCG Photo