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Castelló d'Empúries Main Festival

Castelló d'Empúries, Alt Empordà, Girona

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Castelló d'Empúries Main Festival

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Castelló d'Empúries Main Festival

The giants of Castelló d'Empúries, commissioned in 1982 by the Town Council from the artist Xavier Jansana Font, with costumes sewn by a group of local women, were christened on 10 August, the feast of Sant Llorenç, during that year's Festa Major, and sponsored by the giants of Girona. In 1985 their promoters formally set up the Colla Gegantera de Castelló d'Empúries, with Anicet Juncà Vives as its first cap de colla, and since then the giants have accompanied, together with the correfoc and the bigheads, the August festivities held around the basilica of Santa Maria, the former seat of the county of Empúries.

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