Summer Festival, Spain

Photograph by Tino Soriano , National Geographic

Young people in oversize papier-m ch heads pause in a blooming field on the way to a summer festival in the town of Banyoles. Called capgrossos in Catalan, the big heads are often worn on feast days.

(From the upcoming National Geographic book Visions of Earth)

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