Costumbres populares; Madrid; majismo; Goya; diversión; juegos populares; juegos; jugar; gigantillas; niños; Museo del Prado; siglo XVIII - History Lab https://historylab.es Thu, 19 May 2022 15:21:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Costumbres populares; Madrid; majismo; Goya; diversión; juegos populares; juegos; jugar; gigantillas; niños; Museo del Prado; siglo XVIII - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 The giants https://historylab.es/the-giants/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-giants Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:49 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/las-gigantillas/ Popular game of gigantillas depicted by Goya

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]]> Two children, playing giantesses, carry two smaller, well-dressed children on their shoulders with great effort. The one in front smiles and points with his hands to the steep slope they have come from and the valley they are heading for. Another, lower down, rests sitting on the road. In the background you can see a landscape of mountains and groves crossed by a river.

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