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Every day, during the morning, there is a parade of gigantes y cabezudos ( in English giants and big-heads respectively ), with the giants figures being more than 150 years old.

The eight giants figures were built by the painter from Pamplona Tadeo Amorena in 1860, and represent four pairs of kings and queens of four different races and places ( Europe, Asia, America and Africa ).

Their size is around 4 metres each and are carried by a dancer inside a wooden structure.

During the parade giants dance following the rhythm of traditional music.

The remaining 17 figures include 6 kilikis, 5 big-heads, and 6 zaldikos and were built at different times between 1860 and 1941.

Kilikis and big-heads are caricaturesque, but human-like figures that are carried as helmets.

Big-heads masks are up to 1 metre high and kilikis slightly smaller.

While big-heads simply precede the giants and wave their hands at spectators, kilikis run after children and carry a foam truncheon which they use to hit them with.

Zaldikos, figures representing horses with their riders, also run after children with a truncheon.