Gegants from Montblanc

The gegants belong to Catalonia’s long-standing tradition of public festival pageantry in which large animated figures represent community identity and local history. The provided sources situate such figures within the region’s festival calendar—examples include Saint George’s Day (a major Catalan celebration) and local patronal events and fairs such as the Santa Úrsula Fair in nearby towns—indicating that the Montblanc gegants originate as civic parade figures used in communal celebrations rather than as mythological or supernatural beings.

The sources identify the Montblanc figures by the Catalan term 'gegants' (literally 'giants') and as large festival figures used in parades. No detailed physical description of the Montblanc gegants (materials, costume details, exact height, or individual attributes) is supplied in the available material; what is documented is their status as large parade effigies typical of Catalan civic festivities.

Sources do not attribute supernatural powers to the gegants. Their behaviors are performative and civic: they are carried and animated by people during public festivities and processions as part of communal celebration. They are components of festival ritual and spectacle rather than independent agents with volition or paranormal abilities.