celebrating catalan-style
Catalunya's folk dance, the sardana, can be seen for free at several places in the city including in front of the cathedral and in Plaça Sant Jaume. Mocked in the rest of Spain, the catalans claim theirs is a very democratic dance. Participants all hold in a circle, each puts something in the middle as a sign of community and sharing and since it is not overly energetic, old and young can join in equally.
The main event in a traditional Catalan festival see is usually a parade either promenading a revered holy image or a more celebratory customed affair that's the contrepiece of a neighbourhood festival. It's at the latter you'll come across the gegants, grotesque giants figures with papier-mâché heads, which run down the streets terrorizing children. Also typically Catalan is the correfoc, where brigades of drummers, dragons and devils with spark-shooting flares fitted to pitchforks cavort in the streets.
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