Hello everybody, welcome back. It's Aziz Anashea here, and
we've got our friend Mateo Barbagallo here to tell us about
the City of Dragons event happening in Spain.
We're super excited for it and there's a lot of information to
tell, so we thought we'd record this to help clear up that and
make sure everybody knows what's going on.
So why don't we start with just a a basic overview of what the
event is and what people can expect, and then we'll go from
there with some details. Yeah, if you are in Spain or
near about the last weekend of November, you might want to pop
over and see a whole lot of cool events.
Absolutely. And hello everybody, first of
all, to say I'm having goosebumps because we had a
video like this five years ago and I actually love it quite a
lot. So yeah, Casser City of Dragons
is perhaps the major event in Spain connected to the world of
A Song of Ice and Fire by George Martin.
Of course, as we all know. Hello George.
It will take place from the 29th of November and until the 1st of
December in the city of Cathedrus.
Yes, I'm pronouncing it with this C.
You'll notice I avoided trying to say the name at all because
yeah. Because you're fluent in
Spanish. Exactly.
Yeah, you. Didn't want to embarrass me.
Right, right. That's that's it, yeah.
Exactly. But yeah, it will take place in
Casares again, as as Ashay was saying on the last weekend of
November. And the city is actually a
King's Landing is where the series both both Game of Thrones
and House of Dragon where and are currently being shot being
filmed. So the beautiful thing about
Castro's is that what you see in the TV show is actually the
city. It's there is no embellishment
apart from probably a few props here and there, but the rest is
all generally a medieval, I don't know how to call it
medieval fantasyland, something like that, like it's a dream
coming true for anybody interested in the in this, in
this kind of worlds. So yeah, I strongly encourage
you to visit Casserus in that specific time frame.
I think I remember I I snooped on your Instagram looking at
some of the stuff from the first City of Dragons event and I
appreciated you recreating some some iconic shots from House of
the Dragon with Amond and Kristen Cole with their hats.
And I I look forward to trying to recreate certain other
moments as well with friends and people in cosplay.
We can do that, definitely, because the city will be a huge
parade of people cosplaying and attending The event will be
sword fights. Actually, there will be two
great schools of fencing. So medieval, medieval fencing.
So, you know, there would be the possibility of wielding an
actual sword. But the credit was also due to
my dear friend Stefan Sassa for the picture you just mentioned.
Because yeah, because we were, we were recreating that.
Those scenes around the street, you know, it was quite
beautiful. Now, this is very exciting.
Yeah. The the, the fact that we're
getting to see King's Landing is cool enough, but there's all
these other events happening, like you say, sword fights and,
well, what else can we expect? What other fun type of events
that are associated with this are gonna take place?
Well first of all, you can expect absolutely cosplay
contests, so for those who are going to dress up, I would
recommend choosing the right character and the best possible
outfit we have seen in the 1st edition.
We've seen a lot of Damons and a lot of Ranirez, but we haven't
seen Hilaris, for example. So, you know, and I strongly, I
want to insist that this has not to be related solely to House of
the Dragon. Of course, you know, characters
from Game of Thrones can absolutely participate, so that
would be one thing. But I believe the most important
thing to highlight is that there would be panels where, of
course, for example, you would be taking part, but also voice
actors showing us how house's dragon was dubbed, for example,
in Spanish and now it was adapted from English to Spanish
and so on and so forth. Live sessions where you can
actually question, ask questions to to the guests and see, for
example, if it is possible to know how a certain line was
translated. So this kind of things can be
quite interesting in terms of what you can expect, but also
many other stuff. A medieval market.
Just imagine the city of Kassers turned into a beautiful market
where you will be able to see not only props or, you know,
souvenirs that are sort of recalling in the atmosphere of,
of a sunglass and fire, but a lot of other stuff.
And Needless to say, Needless to say, a lot of fun dinners with
of course, all of us, but also with the seat, with the people
who are taking part in the event.
You will be able to see many activities, quizzes where you
will win perhaps some good prizes, apart from, of course,
honoring glory in front of your friends.
So get ready for that and why not?
There will be a lot of podcasters, so people like Shay
and Aziz, but also my dear friends of La Cancion, Continua
and many others. There will be a lot of creators
from all over the world, one especially in particular coming
from as far as you guys, Jack Duran.
Jack Duran, who comes from Mexico.
And yes, and there will be the possibility of interacting with
all these creators in person, of course, So brace yourself.
And yes, I've forgotten to mention that of course, I'm not
the only person organizing this event.
Far from me, to be the diva of this organization.
I'm not actually. This work was solely possible
thanks to the help and to the minds of Danny Maglore, of
course, a huge creator in in Spain and the the friends of the
podcast called La Cancion Continua.
So Santi Baya and Berta, alongside the administration of
the city of Cassares and the marketing agency called
Incertus, which is helping us in organizing this event.
So a huge thank you to all of them for the incredible effort
and the the sweat that they have put along with me in the
creation of this. This is a process that has taken
us more than a year in the making, and not without bumps on
the road. But it's happening, so brace
yourself. Yeah, this is the second, not
the third, right? Y'all skipped a year, if I
remember correctly. Yes, yes.
Which speaks to what a production, what a labor it is
to put this on. I'm really very excited to see
you to see all of these other creators, to see all of the fans
and, and folks local to the area in cosplay and, and I'm just
excited for everything about it, to be honest.
You got my hype level just really skyrocketed.
We're going to King's Landing. I mean, that's great.
And all our friends are going to be there.
That's you really can't beat that.
So yeah, I hope a lot of the rest of you will join us because
you're our friends too. You are in our community.
The Song of Ice and Fire community doesn't get to come
together like this that often. We certainly have never been to
Spain, so it'll be a new experience for us in that regard
as well. I'm looking forward to some
paella for sure. Yeah.
And I think it's worth saying, if you're listening to this
later or thinking towards the future, probably in the fall of
most years, you would hope that if you look to to Catheris,
Catheris, I need to get it right.
If you look there, you'll probably see some sort of cool
House of the Dragon, Game of Thrones type of event happening.
I think this is an event that y'all want to continue going
forward in the years. I think that there's also just
guided tours and whatnot of the city year round.
So I think if you're looking to experience King's Landing, you
should probably look into going to Spain.
Absolutely. Not to mention that of course
all many areas around Catholics have actually been used for the
filming for the shooting of the series.
So there is a city exactly close to casters, probably one hour
away from Casters, called Trujillo, where many scenes were
shot. Not also to to forget the area
of the Barruecos where the famous scene where the track he
charged. So the battle between Amy.
Train Battle, Yeah. Yes, there you go.
So yeah, quite a lot, quite a lot of events happening there.
And trust me, you will get a chance to visit it so I can.
I cannot stop saying brace yourself, but do brace yourself
because this has happened. Like the charge of the Dothraki,
Yeah, I mean, jeez, but but but with a good result, yeah.
Well, we're gonna charge into the city.
Yes, you're gonna charge into the.
City, that's right. After, after a flight, yeah.
After our airplane, yeah. Look, I will rent horses just
like we will make it happen. We will make it happen.
This is escalating quickly, but in the best possible ways.
All right. Yeah, we can.
We're very excited. It's it's coming up soon.
And we'll also, of course, have reports on it after the fact.
Absolutely. And you know me, this is going
to be escalating quite quickly. The escalation will continue.
Is there a resource that folks can go to to find information on
the event? There have been a lot of
articles, you know, around the web and about this event.
Some of them would not finalize the information about what's
going to happen. So of course, don't expect to
see everything that you have read so far.
But we are creating something, I would say as exciting as what
you've read, if not even more so.
Yeah, again, I said. It's escalating.
Not gonna lie, just go into the city and seeing the beautiful
location would be plenty exciting for me.
And then adding all of all of these other things.
I am, I'm very excited to to experience all of this with you
and hopefully with some of you listening to this right now.
Yeah. Thanks for taking the time to
explain it to us and get us so excited.
We're we're ready for this escalation and can't wait to be
there. Thank you guys.
Of course, during and after the event we will be sharing lots of
photos to try to relate the experience to those of y'all who
can't make it and to capture it for ourselves and everybody
else. So check our socials down in the
description there and follow them to keep up with all the
action. Unless you're going to be there,
in which case we'll see you there.
Until then, Valar reread us.