Thus was born the figure of the carrista, who has the flair and creativity of the artist, the skill and ingenuity of the craftsman, the spectacularity of a stage designer. Every float is a true work of art made with few and simple ingredients, such as newspaper mixed with flour glue and water.
The process takes several months and starts with the artist's idea of the allegorical float, which he turns into a sketch and then into a skeleton of rushes, wood, and wire. This framework is then covered with clay, shaped by hand, and then sprayed with plaster to become the base on which the papier-mâché is applied. Layer after layer of newspaper and glue, these papier-mâché giants are born.
Each float can be as high as 20 meters and 12 meters long, and is made to amaze and enchant the public, but also the jury that at the end of the parades decrees the ranking of the most beautiful floats of that edition of the carnival.
