Entroido Festival – Spain
Galicia’s Entroido isn’t your average carnival—it’s a rowdy celebration filled with flour fights, strange costumes, and mock battles with sausages. Participants dress as grotesque figures calledpeliqueiros, wearing creepy masks and wielding whips as they chase down townspeople in a surreal display of misrule and tradition.
Dating back centuries, Entroido is a defiant celebration against authority and conformity. Each town has its own version, with parades, food fights, and symbolic rituals that often include a ceremonial “trial” or burning. It’s chaotic, hilarious, and proudly bizarre—a cultural middle finger to the mundane.
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