When Christmas arrives, Barcelona fills with nativity scenes, living nativity scenes and performances of Els Pastorets. A year on and we’re back, offering you everything in a single programme.
For All Saints’ Day Barcelona’s cemeteries will be filled with funeral carriages, Mexican altars and much more, and opening hours will be extended.
The city will be chock-a-block with traditional events from 23 to 26 September for celebrating its Festa Major or big annual festival, in a year marking a major anniversary.
From 24 to 29 August, the Sants neighbourhood will be bursting with popular culture events, with giants, devils, bells, havaneres and sardanas!
From 24 to 29 August, a number of streets in the Sants neighbourhood will be transformed into fantasy worlds to celebrate the Sants Annual Festival!
From 15 to 21 August, Gràcia is once again celebrating its Big Annual Festival, with 21 streets and squares decorated by local residents. Not to be missed!
From 15 to 21 August, the streets of Vila de Gràcia will be bursting with activities to celebrate the Festa Major 2021, with all the required health measures in place.
From 13 to 16 August the 432nd Sant Roc de la plaça Nova Festival will be taking place, the oldest neighbourhood festival in the city.
On Sunday 6 June at 19.45 all of the Seguici Popular will attend the Corpus Christi procession, which will feature imagery dances.
A form of entertainment with Arab origins? A celebration of the height of spring? A custom imported from Italy? Both the origin and the meaning of the Dancing Egg, the most popular feature of the Corpus Christi festivities in Barcelona, are difficult...
