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.
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in 1993 and contains the city's festival imagery, historical figures like the Gegants del Pi and others recreated from historical documents.
