Full programme for the Santa Eulàlia Festivities 2024
Culture and free time. This year marks 600 years of giants in Barcelona and is also the bicentenary of the birth of Josep Anselm Clavé.
Culture and free time. This year marks 600 years of giants in Barcelona and is also the bicentenary of the birth of Josep Anselm Clavé.
During carnival, food becomes another means of transgression and for this reason it takes centre stage at so many points in the festival.
Battles of Oranges in Italy, fritters in the United States, multitudinous parades in Bolivia... Some features of the Barcelona carnival are reflected in other carnivals around the world. Would you like to know more?
The Colla Gegantera de Nou Barris will be once again performing their music and dance show, “Santa Eulàlia de Vilapicina, the forgotten neighbourhood”.
Candlemas, which falls on 2 February, right in the middle of winter, marks the end of the Christmas cycle. But why is it a festival with such strong roots? Is it religious or is there a pagan background? What part do candles play in it?
Candlemas has always been regarded as an ideal day for forecasting the weather, especially how many days of cold are left. Si la Candelera plora, l’hivern és fora; si la Candelera riu, l’hivern és viu is a well-known Catalan saying.
This festival, characterised by transgression, the switching of roles, rowdy behaviour and recklessness, is one of the most widely referred to in proverbs.
On Saturday 27th of January, the Vila de Gràcia will enjoy one of the most outstanding festivities of its festive calendar
Subsidies. The funding available for this year’s call is 22.5 million euros, with 25 themes and 106 programmes established.
The festivity is celebrated almost everywhere and takes on very different forms: bonfire parties with devils in Mallorca, the grand Santantonades in the towns of the Ports, the processions of the Tres Tombs del Principat...