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Giants & Big Heads
Dancing giants, dragons, capgrossos (big heads) and demons play an important part in traditional Catalan folklore. They feature
in many festes, especially La Mercè, with its eccentric Ball de Gegants, a dance of costumed 5m-high giants and grinning papier-mâché
'big heads' which is performed from Drassanes to Ciutadella, and the Corre Foc (Fire-Running), when devils and dragons scatter
firecrackers in the Ciutat Vella.
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