Strange characters at Mallorca’s fairs

Llucmajor celebrates its second and third fairs this weekend, the Saturday fair being Fira Frikijor - fantasy, superheroes, cosplay, and so on. A bit freaky in other words.

Alaro has its giants, bigheads and demons like many other places, but it also has a dragon, a donkey and donkey dancers. They’ll all come out to play at the Artisan Fair on Sunday morning.

In Alcudia on Saturday, S’Estol Rei en Jaume make their traditional appearance. The bigheads of King Jaume I and his Moor rival plus various characters from Mallorca’s folk tales are now complemented by Els Vilatans de Guinyent, villagers from what was a settlement (Guinyent) before the walls of Alcudia began to take shape at the start of the fourteenth century.