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ingenious disguises for the Carnival and the famous Circus in which he presented special
shows with animals that had been trained by him. Elu was the circus director and his
assistants were the same children from the town. With their dogs, cats, frogs, chickens,
goats and others animals, they created a show worthy to be seen, which was enjoyed and
remembered as one of the largest things that has been done in Ciadoncha. But that was
not all that Elu did, he also organized by his own account "Exposition of bones", a
species of Atapuerca with the bones of animals that he found in the field. All of it was
full of jocularity for the town’s delight. Today Elu is remembered with a lot of
happiness, nostalgia and admiration.
Elu and his circus. 1991
Photo provided by Arcadio Varona
The cultural weeks were true academic encounters, like a summer course from
any university. They did whatever was possible to bring the most qualified people to
give talks, which the majority of the town attended with pleasure. Even the local
television channel, channel 54 of Burgos, filmed some of these presentations.
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