New Year in Barcelona: how to welcome in 2022
To bid farewell to the year 2022 and welcome 2023, you are invited to the big party on Avinguda Maria Cristina.
To bid farewell to the year 2022 and welcome 2023, you are invited to the big party on Avinguda Maria Cristina.
The nativity scene in Plaça de Sant Jaume will be digital and will represent different traditions of the Christmas season.
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.
Once again the Museu Frederic Marès has a traditional nativity scene. It is the work of the Barcelona Association of Nativity Scene Builders
For All Saints’ Day Barcelona’s cemeteries will be filled with funeral carriagesç and much more, and opening hours will be extended.
Once night has fallen, the hustle and bustle awakens the City Giants, the Pi and Santa María del Mar giants.
From 23 to 26 September, Barcelona will celebrating the biggest festival of the year with dozens of events, traditional, new and marking important anniversaries!
On Sunday 25 September, La Mercè will be celebrating Passeig de Gràcia’s 200th birthday with stick dancing, giants and a Fire Run!
On the afternoon of 24 September, the La Mercè procession will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of the launch of Barcelona’s first bus line with a very special parade.
The creator of this year's La Mercè poster brings together three generations of Barcelona residents in one festival image.