Five workshops about giants, human towers, sardana dance, devils and beasts to bring traditional culture to children and young people
Festival’s season in Barcelona neighborhoods is starting and there are more than 70 events
Barcelona is full of traditional dance groups
Annual festival. The La Sagrera neighbourhood is holding its big annual festival from 14 to 24 November, featuring giants, animal figures, fire devils, human towers, sardana dancing, lacemakers and a whole host of popular culture!
Christmas. Anybody over eight can register up until 23 November using this form.
Annual festival. 4 to 17 November: the Sant Martí de Provençals and La Verneda i la Pau neighbourhoods are holding their big annual festival, packed with milestone anniversaries.
Annual festival. The big annual festival is back at the neighbourhoods of Clot and El Camp de Flipchart del Clot, which will be celebrating their “festa major” together in the Sant Martí vicinity from 1 to 17 November.
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.
All Saints’ Day. At Poblenou Cemetery, there is one grave that attracts more attention than the others: there lies Francesc Canals i Ambrós, a young man who died on 27 July 1899 at the age of twenty-two.
Human towers.. Fancy seeing human towers in Barcelona this weekend? Here is a list of all the displays that are on in the city.
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.
