Douai, Nord-Pas de Calais, France

Les Fêtes de Gayant, in Douai, Nord, France. Les Fêtes de Gayant is an annual festival taking place in July, which centres around a ritual procession with huge wicker figures, along with a carnival-like parade with a variety of other participants, music and floats. Les Fêtes de Gayant in Douai is inscribed on the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage, along with several other traditional processions with huge effigies of giants or dragons in France and Belgium. © Rudolf Abraham