Wake up, Barcelona! The graller pipers from the different folk culture groups will announce the arrival of the annual festival’s most important day by playing the traditional Toc de Matinades (Morning Call) melody.

Route: Plaça de Sant Jaume (10.30 am), Carrer del Bisbe and Plaça Nova.

The Falcons de Barcelona are again taking flight for the Santa Eulàlia Festivities! They will leave the Barcelona crowd in awe as they make impressive human constructions that defy balance and gravity.

After the performance in Plaça de Sant Jaume, the parade will march to Plaça Nova On Carrer del Bisbe, however, they will stop in front of the Santa Eulàlia door of the Cathedral cloister, where they will create a figure in honour of the patron saint.

They débuted in 2003 as part of the Santa Eulàlia Festivities, and more than two decades later we are still enjoying their performances with figures like the stairs and the pyre, along with more innovative ones.

11 am: Start of the Seguici (procession).

12.30 pm: Baixada de Santa Eulàlia. Santa Eulàlia Dance performed by the Gegants Nous de la Plaça Nova and wreath-laying ceremony.

1.15 pm: Plaça de Sant Jaume. Dances by the gegantona Laia, the City Eagle, the City Giants and the Santa Eulàlia Dance by the Plaça Nova New Giants.

Route: Plaça Nova, Carrer dels Boters, Plaça de la Cucurulla, Carrer de Portaferrissa, Carrer del Duc, Carrer de la Canuda, Carrer de Santa Anna, Avinguda del Portal de l’Àngel, Carrer dels Arcs, Plaça Nova, Carrer del Bisbe, Carrer de Sant Sever, Baixada de Santa Eulàlia, Carrer dels Banys Nous, Carrer de Ferran and Plaça de Sant Jaume (1 pm).

For the first time ever, this year the display and route of the Santa Eulàlia Seguici (procession) and the Meeting of Giants in Ciutat Vella has cahnged. After a huge concentration of giants and beasts on Avinguda de la Catedral, the gegantona Laia and the cBarcelona Communal Procession will lead the parade, followed by all the giants of Ciutat Vella, other Barcelona neighbourhoods and some from outside the city. Laia, the Eagle, the City Giants and the Plaça Nova New Giants will dance in Plaça de Sant Jaume, offering their reinterpretation of the Santa Eulàlia Dance.

The first gathering, held in 1983 with only two festival groups, was the beginning of the contemporary Santa Eulàlia Festivities.

Lacemakers from all over Catalonia will exhibit their pillows, lace, sticks, patterns and needles on Carrer dels Arcs and Portal de l’Àngel. They keep alive this artistic activity which was extremely important in Catalonia's textile industry between the 18th and 20th centuries.

Gather one and all and enjoy the human tower builders: the Castellers de Barcelona, the Colla Castellera de l’Esquerra de l’Eixample, the Colla Castellera Jove de Barcelona, the Castellers del Poble Sec, the Castellers de la Sagrada Família, the Castellers de Sants, the Castellers de Sarrià and the Castellers de la Vila de Gràcia!

In 60 minutes, the city’s eight human tower groups will build their towers at the same time. Everything is set for the towers to once again rise up and touch the Barcelona sky!

The festival wouldn't be an annual festival without the sardanes! The sardana season kicks off for Santa Eulàlia! The Cobla Mediterrània and the Cobla Ciutat de Terrassa sardana orchestras are offering a double dance of what the poet Joan Maragall called ‘the most beautiful dance of all dances done and undone’.

Don’t miss it!