The Corpus Cristi Flower Festival |
But what's this?
The Giants are heading straight into the petal-strewn streets!
All that work. All that effort.
Crazy! Illogical! Spain is different!
But, then again, don't you remember as a child the pleasure you got from smashing up something that had taken you hours to build?
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De-struction as a counterpoint to con-struction.
Yin and Yang again.
Look at Shiva the Hindu God. Look at Milosevic.
Whatever, I bet you'd love to be the bloke in the white plimsolls.
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.. and the whole procession follows. Here we have the Moorish Queen, impressively tall in the narrow streets.
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And the Americanos.
These were people who returned to Sitges having made their fortunes in Cuba a hundred years ago.
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And at the end of the procession come the boys and girls who have had their first communion on this day. Despite the pagan trappings, Corpus Cristi is a religious holiday.
(Note the state of the streets by this point.)
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