Braga Romana 2026, Day 3
Day 3 – Friday
Today was HOT so we didn’t do as much. The only thing we made time for was the big parade in the evening. And that was a good choice, I now have a much better sense of how parades work here. Maybe this is how parades work everywhere, and I just haven’t attended many? I don’t know. It was group after group in costume and holding banners or signs, some of them school groups, some church, and many reenactment guilds from the festival. The costumes were great, it’s like all of Braga turns out to cosplay being Roman. It occurs to me that they don’t do Halloween here, so this is their big costume blowout.
Anyway, on to some parade pictures. I took way more videos this time, but I can’t embed those here.
All right, I’m going to attempt to embed one short video. It’s the finale with some kickass drummers. I love the kids at the front, between the little girl whose hands are clearly not quite ready for this, and the little boy with surprisingly great rhythm for one so young. As they start to move forward you can see the police bringing up the rear and the spectators falling in behind them. This was a great parade, I’m going to get an even better view next year and try to learn more about the groups involved.
