Viking Festival in Spain

In the north-west Spain in the village Catoira there is crazy Vikings festival , which is purpose to recall the attack on the Spanish land by the Vikings a thousand years ago. Traditionally Vikings Festival is held on the first Sunday in August.

In attempting to recreate the events of those distant years, Catoira residents and tourists from all over Europe Varangian in wild costumes, crowning their horny heads and helmets, as the Vikings, and rejoice from the heart. The program of the festival is not just a carnival, and test Varangians but dishes. Culmination of event is the battle between the theatrical came from Scandinavia and local residents.