Correfoc
As I mentioned in a post yesterday, my neighbourhood - Gracia - is in the midst of the week long madness of the annual Fiesta. Last night I was due to go to a flat-warming at a friend’s new apartment and, as you do, I left around 10pm. As I hit the main drag I saw these suspicious characters fiddling about with something in the middle of the road:
And then it hit me - I had coincided with the start of the correfoc - the traditional ‘Night of Hellfire’ which is the hallmark of the Festival and continues unabated throughout with Demons and Devils charging through the streets throwing fireworks and small explosives whilst dragging enormous specially constructed Dragons that rotate wildly spewing flames and fire at anything that moves.
It took several hours to navigate the quarter mile or so to my friend’s apartment - all the way fighting a rear-guard action against the hordes of drunken revellers and Demons who leapt out throwing incendiary devices from every corner. When I finally hit his street I was literally confronted by the Dragon that up to that point had been worryingly conspicuous by it’s absence.
Luckily I managed to survive, although I had to run for my life in the opposite direction receiving singed shirt and hair in the process. Today the streets looked (and still look) like a war-zone and I am resting now until the depredations continue tonight. In the meantime I have put some new pictures of last night’s devilry on flickr.
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