Gothic Quarter, Barcelona

Photograph by Jordi Boixareu

Devils run amidst the pyrotechnics during the celebration of a correfoc for the Sant Roc Festival in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona. Correfocs are an old Catalan tradition where people dressed as devils blow up firecrackers and flares.

(This photo and caption were submitted to the 2013 National Geographic Photo Contest .)

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