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Agustín Luengo Capilla, el Gigante Extremeño

Puebla de Alcocer, La Siberia, Badajoz

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Agustín Luengo Capilla, el Gigante Extremeño

Curiosity · Puebla de Alcocer, La Siberia, Badajoz

Born in Puebla de Alcocer on 15 August 1849 and died in 1875, Agustín Luengo Capilla reached a height of 2.35 meters and worked as a publicity attraction for a traveling circus, even being received by Alfonso XII. The Museo del Gigante Extremeño, in the village's Casa de la Cultura, preserves his boots, his cane and the circus posters.

Photo: Frufaro (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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