February and March is the time of carnivals in many places . Spain is not exclusion .
Last year at this time I visited carnival in Orense , regi贸n Galicia in Spain .
I was in some small village among mountains , maybe poor , yes , everything looks not modern at all , at least it was very modest , but carnaval - suits of native inhabitants were perfect.
I spoke to some people they told that carnaval-suit for them are very important . Every family try to have some expansive and beautiful , and care of the suit for ages and can pas from father to son.
The traditional suit of this area - peliqueiro . Men put on the dress of peliqueiro , they take up sticks with a turning part at the end, and run along the main street of the village, rapidly rotating these sticks, with grandiose noise. Noise creates metal parts of their suits. The main thing is not to hit under the blows of their lashes. it will hurt.
The suit is really amazing .. Mask with the face of some animal , very huge .. long-socks , white , handmade , any fashionable woman would be jealous of such socks 馃ぉ馃槏 white handmade shirt , colourful pantalones .. Wow 馃槏鉂わ笍
The inhabitants didn鈥檛 tell me exactly history of this mask and suit . One of them spoke about Ancient Rome , the tradition to run along the street and hit people with lashes . Another told about Celts , who were lived in all this area many centuries .. By the way you can find here many signs of Celts : stories , traditions , pictures , stone-sign , boats , even witches ))) yes , they still burn witches every years .. Doll-witch , it is good that not alive women ))
Who knows from where all these traditions .. As for me to much mix between Old Rome, Celts and Christianity .. And it makes this place very special and not similar to no one place in the world 馃馃ぉ
The people from village said the good suit of peliqueiro costs more than 2000 evro .
After carnaval all of them went to small tavernas and had fiesta . I don鈥檛 know exactly what they drink, some traditional alcohol drink - but for me it was very strong 馃槈馃お so my special carnaval-cup was almost all time empty 馃