Celebrate Castaween with a Roman mask

Autumn is the time of Bacchus, of harvest and of wine, especially of this sweet wine that tastes so good to accompany chestnuts and panellets!

This year we propose to Romanize your Castanyada festival – whichever version you celebrate – with a mask that reproduces the Roman theatrical mask that decorates a lantern from the 1st century AD, which you can see in our Museum.

Although the Romans did not have any specific festival for this date, they did have some related to autumn and grapes such as the Meditrinalia (October 11) which was a celebration to taste the must, checking its quality

On the other hand, Bacchus was also the protector of the theatre. Did you know that actors in Greek and Roman times wore masks so that the audience could quickly recognize the role they were playing? In this case, ours would be a tragic mask that, for sure, made the spectators suffer a lot.

We have made an interpretation of this piece, garnishing it with spiders and cobwebs, so that you can enjoy it during these days. If you wear it, you’re sure to make your friends jealous, while you torment them with some very tragic story.

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