Despite the health situation, one of the festival’s main features is being maintained, with a resumption of decorations in 21 streets, arranged above head level to make it easier for people to pass through and along one-way paths and thereby enable regulation of the accesses points and prevention of over-crowding. In that respect, soe hundred information officers will be regulating access points and the distribution of people visiting the streets or taking part in the various planned events and activities.

Three new activities-programme venues

Two unit programme venues have been provided by the Gràcia District this year and a further venue by the Festa Major de Gràcia Foundation. These are safe, spacious areas, where social distancing between individuals is guaranteed, for enjoying cultural events and activities aimed at members of the public of all ages. The venues are as follows:

• Plaça Joanic
• Carrer Pi i Margall, between Carrer Sant Lluís and Carrer Joaquim Ruyra
• Carrer Bailèn, between Carrer Sant Antoni Maria Claret and Carrer Indústria

Opening Speech for the Festa Major [Big Annual Festival]

The Chair of Òmnium Cultural, Jordi Cuixart, a resident of Vila de Gràcia, will have the privilege of delivering the opening speech for the 2021 Gràcia Festa Major. The speech will once again be given from the balcony of the Gràcia District’s Headquarters, although the event will only be available to watch on site. It will be broadcast live, online, in the afternoon of 14 August.

Homage to Jordi Fàbregas

The 2021 Gràcia Festa Major is also intended to offer a space in memory of the cultural activist, creator and music disseminator, Jordi Fàbregas, the founder of the Centre Artesà Tradicionàrius, who died last January. The homage, which will be paid on 18 August, is being organised jointly between the TRAM Cultural Association, Colles de Cultura, the Festa Major de Gràcia Foundation and the Gràcia District.

An inclusive festival free of sexist harassment

A year on and an inclusive festival has been planned with activities and events designed for people with various types of disability.

There will be an anti-sexist information and advice point at Plaça de la Revolució. The aim is to prevent possible cases of sexual harassment and to assist and advise people at the receiving end of gender, LGBTI-phobic or sexual violence in public spaces in the context of the festa major.

Several activities, what is more, have been planned to mark Barcelona World Sustainable Food Capital.

The entire 2021 Gràcia Festa Major’s programme will be available from the City Council’s website and from the Festa Major de Gràcia Foundation’s website, as of Friday, 6 August. Bookings for attendance at the various activities can be made as of Monday, 9 August.