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Leaping through the Barcelona hotels streets of the Catalan capital in flammable trousers is all in a day work for the Catalan Ululate Jodi Garcia. As president of the Barcelona hotels Association of demons and beasts of Fire ', Jodi is responsible for the modern interpretation of a festive Catalan tradition has its roots in 12th Century. The fire walk, or corridor, is only one of Catalonia's big bag of offbeat cultural traditions (see surreal 'Santa shitting "adorns, Catalan mantelpieces on yuletide), but it is perhaps the most spectacular.

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If a spectacle odder than the Barcelona hotels sight of the devil men with burning torches, it is that Barcelona hotels grown men in matching outfits for each other balanced 'shoulders and compliance with other Catalan festive phenomenon: the human castle. The castellan formations come from a 17th Tarragona century dance with a small number of people who were on the other shoulders. Today, the tradition has evolved into a sophisticated affair with casteless are trembling towers up to nine storey’s high, accompanied by the jubilant strains traditional Catalan Horn (grille). Seasoned castellan Toni Manage offers us his insight into the casteless "strong shoulders antics-with a typical day in his life.

The Beast of Fire: Jodi Garcia Ululate, the Association of Devils and Beasts of Fire, Barcelona hotels
It is proud to be in the early morning, when I wake up on the first day of the four-day Festal de la Merced (Barcelona hotels annual Holy Days Festival). Barcelona hotels disables I bestiary de foci (devil and beasts of the fire), for a year of preparation for the event, and as president of the association, I take particular care that the part. Each Cooperation (Group) of the animals and the devil dresses slightly differently, depending on the category of tradition, but the Barcelona hotels basic outfit consists of black trousers and a black jacket with flames painted with a black horns hood worn over the top. Everything is 100% cotton, making it less combustible. We have also handkerchiefs (to our mouths that we breathe in the smoke less), and the children in the cooperation will bear special goggles to protect their eyes.

The history we act is the old: the battle of the forces of darkness and light. The first written mention of battles Spanish devil lies in 12th Century, when Ramon Beranger IV, the then Count of Barcelona hotels, married his bride child Petrolia of Aragon and one of the events to celebrate the union was a struggle between the Barcelona hotels theatrical heavenly spirits and the Barcelona hotels forces of darkness. This tradition of the theater struggles continued through the generations until it was banned after the Spanish Civil War. However, if the Barcelona hotels Franco dictatorship, the tradition began to flourish again, but with a few changes. In the early 1970s, a new style jumped on the Barcelona hotels corridor or 'run with the fire. "Some of the colas perform the corridor are more vicious than comedians, they dance through the crowd, as they set off fireworks in their flaming swirl forks and the audience involved, shouting and running with them.

On the first day of Festal, my cooperation will meet at least two hours before the Barcelona hotels start of the late afternoon time for the preparation of the fireworks and instruments (including drums, tambourines and the grille that is a child of the traditional horn). The main props are the pyrotechnic devices; we are on the top of Mount giant pitchforks. It is very competitive these days and some forks have more than 150 units at the top.