Cantabrian Warriors

• Photographer
  Joaquin Gomez Sastre
• Agency / Studio
  Freelance

During two weekends (last week of August and first week of September) the inhabitants of the town of Los Corrales de Buelna in Cantabria (Spain) celebrate the Cantabrian Wars festival, this festival of marked historical character in which the wars between tribes of Cantabria and the Romans in the years 29 BC. to 19 B.C. It has the active participation of more than 1800 people, who are divided into thirteen Cantabrian tribes and eleven Roman legions. In this way, they represent acts and fights in the "Circo Máximo" (a portable bullring adapted and decorated as a circus) also a Cantabrian town