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Person in charge: Gabriel Sanguino/Anna Gambín
E-mail: gambinna@diba.cat

The giants
Sidru and Susanna are Santa Susanna’s giants. They appeared thanks to the efforts of the dance group of the town and are a symbol that recalls the history of the town and its identity. Sidru weighs thirty kilos and is three and a half metres high and Susanna weighs twenty-eight and is ten centimetres shorter than her partner.

They were presented to the town and baptised with the names with which they are known on 26th July 1998, coinciding with the two new bells of the Parish Church. Since that day, in all the towns they visit, they represent a young woodman from the forests of Sta. Susanna and a young girl from the plain who fell in love one 11th August many years ago. Their meeting, in the words of the parents of the Group itself, was as follows:
"Once upon a time, many years ago, in our town lived Sidru and Susanna. Sidru lived and worked in the forest. He was a tall, handsome boy, strong and brave, who was not frightened of work. He got up every day at dawn to chop wood and charcoal in the wood. But he reached the age when he hoped to find a girl. So one August morning, Sidru put on his newest suit and went down to the town where there was a great party. He immediately saw Susanna, the young girl from a house on the plain, surrounded by the fields her family had worked for generations. She was tall, beautiful, with a smile and blond hair that made his heart leap. In the proceedings, she sat alongside him and offered to dance the first sardana with him, and in the afternoon dance they didn’t separate for one moment. After a year they married and there was a large reception in the house. Their home soon filled with children, making it lively, happy and a meeting place for many relatives and friends."

Gracieta
The proof of this love was the birth of the giant who, one year later, in the local festivities 1999, was baptised with the name of Gracieta, thus recalling one of the hermitages of Santa Susanna, Mare de Déu de Gràcia.

The ‘Capgrossos i els Grallers’ – Big Heads and Pipers
The giants are followed along the streets of the towns of Catalonia by some of the dozen ‘capgrossos’ that also first appeared that July 1998, and all together they entertain those following the route with the music of the pipers. The giant group is now made up of some thirty people, and eight of these form the group of the pipers (six pipes, one kettledrum and one bass drum); however, it is open to anyone who wants to join to grow each day and continue what was started one day long ago.