The bonfire festival is actually a Majorcan tradition that has been brought to this Barcelona neighbourhood
Festival’s season in Barcelona neighborhoods is starting and there are more than 70 events
Barcelona is full of traditional dance groups
Mid-January brings some of the coldest days of the year, a period which has been popularly dubbed as the ‘Setmana dels Barbuts’ [week of the bearded ones]. The days of 15, 16 an 17 January have come to be termed thus as the iconography representing...
From 24 to 26 January, Gràcia fills with Majorcan culture and traditions. The main event will take place on Saturday evening with the lighting of a dozen bonfires.
Sant Antoni. The Sa Pobla bonfires were expanded into other parts of the city some years ago, and they can now be seen in three neighbourhoods outside of Gràcia.
Annual festival. From 18 to 26 January, the neighbourhood of Sant Antoni celebrates the first of the city's annual festivals. This year, the daughter of La Porca, who turns 25 years old, will be presented!
Foguerons. Saturday, 25 January sees Gràcia playing host once again to the Foguerons de sa Pobla. We offer you a list of all the preliminary events not to missed!
Sant Antoni is a festive cycle that includes the whole of the month of January and a series of very varied events.
You can get a good idea about the wealth of Saint Anthony's Day through its proverbs, full of sayings and rhymes that reference different aspects of the festivities: the legend, the famous piglet and the cold weather.
As they do every year, the Three Kings of the Orient will arrive in Barcelona on the afternoon of 5 January, accompanied by the traditional cortege of magic creatures.
It is said that the correfoc developed spontaneously in Barcelona during the La Mercè festival in 1978. That was a time when traditional and popular culture was being revived and a group of cultural activists wanted to organise a fire show. The initial idea was to organise a classic ball de diables but, to their surprise, the watching public joined in the performance and gave it movement.
