6400 x 4266 px | 54,2 x 36,1 cm | 21,3 x 14,2 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
10 gennaio 2011
Ubicazione:
Caldas Riosucio Carnival, Colombia, Latin America
Altre informazioni:
Caldas Riosucio Carnival is one of the most picturesque festivals Colombia and attracts a large number of domestic and foreign visitors. Carnival is also intangible cultural heritage of Colombia. What today is known as Ríosucio was divided into two antagonistic communities (Our Lady of the Mountain and Mining Real Quiebralomo). Their rivalry was such that each of them had its own park and its own church, until priests (José Ramón Bueno and Jose Bonifacio Bonafont), tired of this insane competition, all brought together in what today is known as the Street Trade, urging them to unite as one people, failing which Satan himself would come to punish those who fail to comply with such divine order. To celebrate the union held a party in honor of the Three Kings, so the carnival always coincide with those dates. Over time it became a party full of joy, humor and fun. The devil figure was adopted as the image of the festival in 1915.
