A Catalan correfoc is a stunning visual extravaganza. The name translates as “fire run” so as the name suggests, health and safety are not on the menu, medieval style pyrotechnics are. Basically a street level, hand-held firework display, the correfoc offers convincing evidence that Spain is not a nanny state. In a correfoc, participants dress up as devils and light fireworks, dance to the loud and raucous drumming provided by a traditional gralla, and run amok among the crowds of ...