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Festival de Comparsas de Santiago in Santiago de los Caballeros
Santiago de los Caballeros hosts one of the Dominican Republic's two most historically significant carnivals, with neighborhood-based comparsa groups including Fantasia Egipcia and Roba la Gallina competing each February through elaborately costumed dancers, musicians and thematic floats rooted in a tradition documented since at least 1975 in its modern organized form.
Santiago de los Caballeros hosts one of the Dominican Republic's two most historically significant carnivals, alongside La Vega's, with organized comparsa groups competing each February in a tradition documented since at least 1975 in its modern organized form, drawing on much older colonial-era roots specific to the Cibao valley's second-largest city.