"Suadrillas De San Martín"

Once a year the Colombian San Martín becomes a place of Activity games «Cuadrillas de San Martín». This festival has a 300-year tradition and symbolizes the struggle against Spanish colonialism, and the animosity between Christians and Moors.

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2. The participants are trying as much as possible to resemble the indigenous people of Colombia.



3. Dressed in fur, they are large machete (knife), and even the horses are painted so as to cause terror and fear in the enemy.



4. Masked riders wear ornaments made of bone.



5. At the same time some have with them particularly insidious weapon.



6. The re-enactment of the struggle between the Spanish conquerors and the Muslim warrior.



7. The whole village on your feet, when cavalry troops armed with banners pass.



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