The Gigantona stems from colonial times, evolving into a process of mixing and exchange between two cultures: the Spanish and Indian, is a dance taken from the Spanish to conquer them come Nicaragua. The Spanish brought the dance of the carnival figures dance consisting of Spanish women and the settler who claimed the honor and dignity of the Spanish crown.


The Indians who were being mistreated and humiliated by the Spanish, their women raped, their wealth plundered and trampled their beliefs and customs, devised a way of expressing protest against the Spanish crown, this being the dance of the giants and the Dwarf Cabezón with the balladeers, The drummers and the lamplighter, each has its own value and meaning.


During the decades forties and fifties there was a loss of this dance, because she was not dancing in the districts, only one out into the streets of the Barrio Gigantona Laborío whose name was La Florentina and its owner was Mr. Hernan Lopez, so attributed to this man's character Founder those years Dr. Edgardo Buitrago in the company of a priest asked the mayor of Leon will remove the tax is imposed on the carriers of the tradition of Gigantonas for transit through the streets of Leon, this proposal was accepted and it begins to promote the traditional contest gigantonas each December 8, 1967 In the year prize went to La Florentina del Barrio El Laborío. Dr. Buitrago give the merit of rescuing Gigantonas Traditional Dance of Leon.


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The Gigantona: represents the Spanish woman, dressed in fine clothes and showy, in size from 2.5-3 meters representing the power exerted by the Spanish over the Indians, certain chronic state that their size reflects that the woman was higher in knowledge, beauty and splendor in the development of any State of the Spanish Crown. His head was initially gourd, but eventually were drawn cans, other all hollow timber to brighten your eyes and mouth with a candle, which gives brightness and color.


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El Enano Cabezón: representing the indigenous, small size gives low-power nature of our aborigines, but his big head means that despite the Indian submission imposed by the colonizers, is an intelligent, capable of developing as a person and develop their country. His head still is made of bamboo. Dance to the pair of giant, ridiculing the Spanish crown with its huge head, sideways movements, forward and backward.

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The balladeers or Troubadour: An Indian who wore secretly, she covered her face with a mask made of skin of cattle and other wildlife and walking with a stick he used to command and lead the dance of the giants and the intervention drums. The reason why cover his face, was not to be identified by the Spanish, as dawn was beheaded, as in the form of poems and verses are opposed and protested against colonization. Today, the mask used copleros leather, canvas, x-ray plate in use, papier mache or other material, the purpose of balladeers to delight audiences with their songs, equipped with gestures, it is the most important element of this choreography, it determines the success and joy of those who listen.