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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696-1770) Saint Thecla Praying For The Plague-Stricken (1758–59)_edited
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696-1770) Saint Thecla Praying For The Plague-Stricken (1758–59)_edited
Hodie XXIII septembris quoque… Sanctae Theclae, Virginis et Martyris.
People in Tarragona (Camp de Tarragona, Catalonia) celebrate the local festivities (festa major) of Santa Tecla with castellers, the traditional Catalan “human castles”.
Photos by Júlia Abelló Lòpez.
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The dragon in the stairs of the cathedral of Tarragona (Catalonia) as young people dance in front of it during Tarragona’s festa major (local patron saint festivity) of Santa Tecla.
Every town and city of the Southern half of Catalonia has a figure of a dragon (or sometimes another monster from Catalan legends) that it takes out on the streets during the local festivities. Just like with giants, the dragons are hollow inside, so people get under them to lift them and make them spin to the sound of drums, with firecrackers in its mouth and tail.
Photo by livetgn