| Mallorca "Festa de Sant Salvador" |
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| Preparing the pedestrian precinct | Preparing the fire-spectacle | Do you like hats? | Dance of the "cap-grossos" | Celebrate as much as you can! | Burning down the town hall | Run for your life | Panic | Chasing people along the streets | Great sparkling | Now a "hard" time begins | | ||
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"Celebrate as much as you can!" What the mayor talks in his short inauguration speech is fixed since long time. He demands that everybody should forget the daily sorrows and their work to dedicate themselves for excessive celebration... Everybody living in a rural zone, recording the hard work the grandfathers had to perform, will understand how important a week of no-work was for the people who never knew about holidays nor free Sundays. And to underline this: The moment when the mayor finishes, the fire-devils overtake the town hall to "burn" it and all work there down... |
(C) Egbert Babst (Feel free to use the pictures, but mention the author) |
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