In Portugal, a Girandola is usually a rack to launch multiple stick rockets at the same time or one after another fastly. It consists of a piece of wood with holes where the stick is put in. The rockets are linked by a trail of gunpowder, a black match or by quickmatch fuses, depending on the objective (rapid or slowly firing).
Image from https://museus.madeira.gov.pt/Exposicao?exbID=18
Image from https://museus.madeira.gov.pt/Exposicao?exbID=18
This way of firing rockets is also very usual in Spain, specially, you could see it at the "Cangas de Nárcea" festival that you can see in the youtube video below:
The "Girandola" is also another type of firework in other countries like Italy and USA and I will talk about it in a future post.
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