The city is full of fire beasts
Panellets come in countless flavours, but the most popular sweet of All Saints' Day has a fairly uncertain origin
The Cases de la Festa are spaces open to the public where popular culture entities are hosted, activities are held and giants, bigheads and beasts can be visited.
With the arrival of All Saints festival Barcelona gets filled with chestnut stalls
The six groups of castellers that Barcelona has take part in the special diada castellera on la Mercè’s day. Do you know all of them?
For All Saints’ Day Barcelona’s cemeteries will be filled with funeral carriages, Mexican altars and much more, and opening hours will be extended.
All Saints, and autumn in general, would be very different without the season's three top dishes: chestnuts, panellet cakes and sweet potatoes.
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.
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?
The month of November marks a turning point in the calendar: the days start getting shorter and the chill sets in. In the past, pastoral and agrarian societies saw this day as the end of a cycle. This is why All Saints' Day is such a symbolic...
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'
The city will be chock-a-block with traditional events from 23 to 26 September for celebrating its Festa Major or big annual festival, in a year marking a major anniversary.
From 24 to 29 August, the Sants neighbourhood will be bursting with popular culture events, with giants, devils, bells, havaneres and sardanas!
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in 1993 and contains the city's festival imagery, historical figures like the Gegants del Pi and others recreated from historical documents.
