Get on their backs and experience their breathtaking slowness…

De Machienerie tells stories about our world with poetic theatrical installations. With Les Tortues Géantes des Galapagos, this unique Flemish company brings two giant tortoises to the festival square. Once there were thousands of them, these great giants… Slowly but surely the monsters roamed the endless plains of the Galapagos… No one could harm them… Until man came. Get on the backs of our bulky herbivores and experience their breathtaking slowness… And meanwhile, think of what we can do to save these giants.