Gegants Roc i Maria

Gegants are a long-standing element of Catalan municipal pageantry with roots in medieval street spectacle; the specific pair Roc i Maria are documented in festival inventories and linked by a Wikidata entry to Arenys de Mar. Sources situate the gegants tradition as a civic performance practice that developed from medieval communal celebrations into present-day festa major and saint’s day processions across Catalonia.

Sources describe gegants generally as larger-than-life wearable puppets with papier-mâché heads that are carried or worn and that 'bob through the streets.' The supplied materials do not provide individual costume or facial-detail descriptions for Roc i Maria; they are therefore characterized in the sources only as typical processional giants (processional giant from Arenys de Mar / part of local gegants groups).

As festival figures their role is performative and social rather than supernatural: human carriers animate them to parade, dance (the 'dance of the gegants'), and move through the streets during feast days. They appear alongside capgrossos (big-headed figures) and fantastic animals, functioning as focal points of communal celebration, civic identity, and spectacle.