Barcelona - the Giants

It's half term (for Norwegians, this is like the good old høstferie) and I've spent the last five days in Barcelona with my friend Kari. None of us had been there before, and we're both very much in love with the city now! On the first night, we were just walking around in the Bario Gotic, trying to absorb the atmosphere, when we suddenly bumped into a great party of Giants outside the Iglesia Santa del Mar.


It was kind of crazy, and we didn't really understand what was going on, but it turns out that Barcelona and all its surrounding cities have their local giants, and now all these giants were gathering in Barcelona for a very long parade in the streets of this lovely city!

You may ask yourself: How do they manage to move these giants? Well, each giant was carried by a really strong man (or woman?) and there was some kind of system that actually enabled them to make the giants twirl around in the streets. Very fascinating! (And a bit scary when they got too close....)



I have sooo many pictures and soooo many things I want to share with you, so I'm doing the blog entries from Barcelona poco a poco.