Christmas(es): Barcelona celebrates the city's Christian plurality
Christmas and religious pluralism. Activities from 2 to 23 December.
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Light and Emotion in Plaça de Sant Jaume
Christmas 2025. The façades of the Palau de la Generalitat and the City Hall become the canvas for Simfonia d’estels, an intervention projected by Xavi Bobé Estudio.
All Saints’ Day 2025: Between tradition and liturgy
Religious pluralism. Different cultures and civilisations have celebrated a festival devoted to the memory of and relation with the deceased since time immemorial.
Chestnuts, sweet potatoes and 'panellets' are the culinary stars of All Saints
All Saints, and autumn in general, would be very different without the season's three top dishes: chestnuts, panellet cakes and sweet potatoes.
The lost customs of All Saints’ Day in Barcelona
Would you like to take a walk around the lost Barcelona, accompanied by the explanations of historian Dani Cortijo and the 'Costumari Català’ (Catalan Customs) by Joan Amades?
Cold weather, dark nights, chestnuts, panellet cakes and mushrooms: all you need to know about All Saints’ Day festivities in Catalan sayings
November signals a seasonal shift: days shorten and the cold begins. Historically, this time marked the end of a cycle for pastoral and agrarian societies, underscoring the symbolism of All Saints’ Day.
The Celtic origins of All Saints' Day
All Saints is one of a group of festivals, along with the Day of the Dead and Halloween, which all have a common origin: the beliefs of the Ancient Celts, which were partly based on remembering their dead.
The curious connection between ‘Don Juan Tenorio’ and the All Saints festival.
Although it has almost been forgotten today, the All Saints festival used to have a rich theatrical tradition, with dances of the dead, and above all, all kinds of performances of 'Don Juan Tenorio'
Main events and activities in the city
Three Kings Parade
On the evening of 5 January, Barcelona organises a big welcome for the Kings of the Orient, who set off on a big parade.
Tres Tombs de Barcelona
The main event of the Festa dels Tres Tombs is a parade of animals in a cavalcade and pulling coaches around the city centre.
Tres Tombs Infernals
The Tres Tombs Infernals is a celebration held in Sant Andreu de Palomar that combines street theatre and a firework display with a correfoc.
Sant Antoni Bonfires, from sa Pobla to Gràcia
The Sant Antoni bonfire festival held in Gràcia is actually a Majorcan tradition that has been brought to this Barcelona neighbourhood.
Did you know...
The Seguici Popular de Barcelona is the embodiment of a research project on Barcelona's unusual, historic and unique references which have a symbolic function within the festival. It was set up in 1993 and contains the city's festival imagery, historical figures like the Gegants del Pi and others recreated from historical documents.
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