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In our world of video games and Cirque de Soleil, the old-style, family-run circus still exists with Circus Vargas. Practically an anachronism, this circus carries on with performers doing double-duty as ticket takers and souvenir sellers. Their Big Top tent was made in Italy out of 90,000 square feet of fabric. Four miles of rope and cable are nailed down with 500 stakes by 30 men in 7 hours to raise the tent at each new location (time-lapse video). Trapeze artists, jugglers, tumblers, and of course clowns entertain with a show built for today’s faster pace. As co-owner Katya Quiroga says: “We definitely don’t do this to get rich. You have to do it because you love it.”

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