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Pamplona, June 22 .- The Giants and Big-heads of Pamplona launched on 6 July the announcer chupinazo Sanfermines 2010 as tribute to its 150th anniversary.
Once the mayor of Pamplona, Yolanda Barcina, has decided to delegate the launch in this Comparsa, will be its president, Mari Ganuza, in charge of lighting the fuse, according to the City Council announced today, sto credits, in a statement.
Mari Ganuza, mason by trade, has since 1978 linked to the Giants and Big-heads, and since 1990 held the post of president in charge of coordinating the hundreds of members of the group, besides the Queen dance Community.
He has been carrying the Dolorosa, Pamplona Olentzero organizer, head of Christ Alzado, Bethlehem and jury, tera gold, Fireworks Competition San Fermin.
This will be the fourth Chupinazo of the legislature and the mayor has delegated to the Comparsa, after which it launched earlier years Esporrin Maite (2009), councilor of the PSN; Uxue Barker (2008), NaBai councilor and Yolanda Barcina (2007).
The Giants and Big-heads this year celebrates its 150th birthday, and therefore received the Gold, sto credits, Medal of the City on November 29, 2009, the day of San Saturnino.
In 1860 the Pamplona City Council commissioned the sculptor Thaddeus Amorena the construction of eight giants representing Europe, Asia, Africa and America, and since then, the procession through the center of the city every morning for San Fermin.
The giants are between 3.85 and 3.90 meters above the dancer reach 4.20 meters, its weight ranges between 59 and 64 kilos.
Each giant is danced by a member of Comparsa, who dances to the beat of the music played by a bagpipe band, except the last figure, the American Queen, accompanied by txistularis.
The giants are always preceded by five big heads-Japanese, Japanese, Councilman and Mayor-Grandmother, six-Caravinagre kilikis, Napoleon, Potato, Barbas, Warts and pigtails-and six zaldikos.
The big heads are the most serious of the group, do not dance, just walk and draw attention for their large, the carry kilikis foam rods and hit the children affectionately, and cardboard zaldikos are horses whose carriers also stick to children with their yards of foam.