They are usually eaten during Lent. Before you would find them in cake shops on Wednesday and Friday around that time but now you can find them any day
She is often seen in popular printed images and she works like a calendar: her legs take us towards Holy Week
Barcelona is full of traditional dance groups
As spring is one of the most eagerly-awaited seasons of the year, there are a wealth of traditional sayings which speak about the arrival of the swallows, flowers in bloom and the unpredictable weather associated with this time of year.
Sant Josep Oriol is a Barcelona saint who led a life of vicissitudes, austerity and complete devotion to looking after others. As a good saint, miracles are also attributed to him, the most famous being when he turned a radish into coins. Want to get...
Originally, 'Lá Fhéile Pádraig', as it is known in Gaelic, was a Catholic festival, but over time has evolved into a celebration of Irish culture.
It has now become a tradition for the two Barcelona neighbourhoods to celebrate Sant Medir and have —the Gràcia, Sarrià and Sants— human-tower-making groups put on a joint day event with Sant Cugat's human-tower makers.
Traditionally Lent has been represented as an old woman with seven legs, brandishing a salted cod in one hand and carrying a basket full of vegetables in the other. The produce she has in her hands give us lots of clues about what people eat around...
Santa Madrona is the least known of Barcelona's three patron saints. But there are two churches dedicated to her in Poble-sec, and a festival is held for her in the spring.
A leap year adds an extra day to the calendar. Why? What day is added: the 24th or the 29th of February?
You can spend practically the whole Carnival week in Barcelona eating and we aim to show you how
The Gegants Vells de la Casa de la Caritat are also known as the Carnival giants because the first news we have of them refers to their participation in the arribo of 1859. A that time they belonged to the Societat del Born, one of the organisations most heavily involved in organising the Barcelona Carnival then. As well as publishing bans and all kinds of satirical notices, they organised a parade in which we know various imaginary festival figures took part and there were some spectacular comparses, groups of dancers in fancy dress.
