The Colla de Gigantes y Cabezudos de Benicarló was born in 1992. This Cultural Association has intended, for more than 225; s highlighted in the city's festive calendar, as well as as well as being present at popular culture meetings.
Tolo and Mar are the official giants of the city.
More than 2000 years ago in Benicarló There were two Iberian towns, Puig de la Nau and La Tossa, from there; the names of the giants Puig and Tossa come from.
Gori is a boy with a scoundrel's face and is dressed like a school boy; his name isá dedicated to San Gregorio, patron saint and saint of great devotion among the population. Pau and Anna are a couple of farmers, dressed in black blouses, very characteristic of farmers.
Cabezudos, also called in other places “capgrossos, nanos or bigheads”, are people who have a very large head and represent different characters. In the case of Benicarl', they represent different couples. The grandparents Pere and Càndida, the Christians Jaume and Violant, the farmers Tío Isidre and Tía Quica, the Moors Gazló and Fátima, the blacks Kame and Fara and the Turks Asian and Ikay.
There are several times of the year when we can see these processions of festive and popular culture in Benicarló: