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
This event takes place on Saturday, 14 December, along the Pla de la Catedral. There will be dance displays, a Carassa music parade, puppets and a giant tió...
In Barcelona there is a capgròs [Giant Head] that represents the Spirit of Christmas and when the festivities are approaching, he passes through the city to inaugurate all the nativity scenes he can find.
It's a custom in Barcelona to ask for the saint every, 13 December, for her protection against eye-related ills. Hundreds of devotees light candles in the chapel devoted to the saint in the Cathedral, a chapel that is flooded with light by the end of...
Living nativity scenes are a Christmas tradition which has become firmly rooted in Catalonia and there are currently six in Barcelona. Each of them has its own unique characteristics.
The Tyrolean Krampus, the German Christmas markets, the Scandinavian St Lucia choirs, presents appearing under a model ship in Greece, a witch who brings presents in Italy... European Christmases all have their own traditions. Would you like to know...
Traditionally the Feast of the Immaculate Conception has been regarded as the first celebration in the Christmas cycle, so that’s when the first turrons used to be sold.
The opening of the Santa Llúcia Fair is an unmistakable sign that Christmas is coming.
The figure of Sinterklaas is inspired by the legend of St Nicolas of Myra, a fourth-century Turkish bishop regarded as the patron saint of children.
It is said that the correfoc developed spontaneously in Barcelona during the La Mercè festival in 1978. That was a time when traditional and popular culture was being revived and a group of cultural activists wanted to organise a fire show. The initial idea was to organise a classic ball de diables but, to their surprise, the watching public joined in the performance and gave it movement.
