La Mercè recovers the Festival Eve Night!
Once night has fallen, the hustle and bustle awakens the City Giants, the Pi and Santa María del Mar giants.
The city is full of fire beasts
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All the popular culture events at La Mercè 2022
From 23 to 26 September, Barcelona will celebrating the biggest festival of the year with dozens of events, traditional, new and marking important anniversaries!
Fire run, stick-dance morning, and Modernista giants, in Passeig de Gràcia
On Sunday 25 September, La Mercè will be celebrating Passeig de Gràcia’s 200th birthday with stick dancing, giants and a Fire Run!
The 2022 La Mercè procession commemorates the 100th anniversary of the launch of the city’s first bus line
On the afternoon of 24 September, the La Mercè procession will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of the launch of Barcelona’s first bus line with a very special parade.
Many lives and one Mercè
The creator of this year's La Mercè poster brings together three generations of Barcelona residents in one festival image.
All the popular culture events at the 2022 Sants Festival
Annual festival. The Festa Major de Sants kicks off on Saturday, 20 August and continue up to Sunday, 28 August.
All the popular culture events of the 2022 Gràcia Festival
Annual festival. Gràcia is packed with festive and traditional activities for its annual festival. It’ festival time in Gràcia from 14 to 21 August!
Events not to be missed during the Sant Roc Festivities for 2022
Town's annual festival. Programme for the Sant Roc de Plaça Nova festivities which take place this year from 14 to 17 August. Did you know that they are the oldest ones held in Barcelona?
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 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.
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