barcelona holidays
Each barri (district) in Barcelona and every town and village in Catalonia has a saint’s day to be
celebrated in an annual festa major.For your Barcelona Holidays, The sardana is danced and, on the Costa Brava, havaneres (habaneras) are sung.
Food is central to any event, and open-air feasts and special pastries and cakes feature
strongly. Many towns,including Barcelona, have parades of giants (gegants), bigheads (capgrosses) and dwarfs
(nans) – papier-mâché caricatures of people once linked with local trade guilds. Demons and dragons provide drama. Catalans
love pyrotechnics, and the fires at the midsummer Revetlla de Sant Joan are a lavish incendiary event. Many celebrations
often start on the eve of the feast day proper.
ALMOND BLOSSOM gives way to cherry and apple as the earth warms and the melting snows swell the rivers. The
fishing season for trout and other freshwater fish starts in late March. At Easter, families
get together, often going out of town to visit relatives, or to picnic and search for wild
asparagus. May is the best month in which to see wild flowers, which are particularly spectacular in the Pyrenees.
Sant Medir (3 Mar). In Barcelona Holidays processions distribute sweets in the district of Gràcia,and in Sants a week later.
Sant Josep (19 Mar). Many Catalans are called Josep (often shortened to Pep). This
is a holiday in Spain, although not in Catalonia. People celebrate their “name day” – the day of the saint they are
named after – more than they Diumenge de Rams (Palm Sunday). Palm leaves are blessed in church, notably at the
Sagrada Família in Barcelona.
Processions of Roman soldiers turn out in Girona, and via crucis (passion plays) are put on in several places, notably
the spa town of Sant Hilari Sacalm, Girona province.Dijous Sant (Maundy Thursday),Verges, Girona province.
Men dressed as skeletons perform a death dance (dansa de la mort) thought to date back to times of plague in the 1300s.
Pasqua (Easter). On Good Friday (Divendres Sant) crucifixes are carried through the streets following the Stations of
the Cross. On Easter Monday (Dilluns de Pasqua) godparents buy their godchildren mona (egg cake), and bakers
compete to make the most elaborate confections.
Fira de Sant Ponç (11 May).Ancient celebration around the Carrer de l’Hospital in Barcelona,once the site of the city
hospital. Aromatic and medicinal herbs and honey are sold.Corpus Christi (May/Jun).Flowers are laid in the streets
of Sitges, and in Berga, Barcelona province, a monster dragon (la Patum) dances through the town’s streets.
Barcelona is a sunny city, enjoying clear blue skies for a large part of the year and often up
to ten hours’ sunshine a day in summer. In winter, even though it can be cold in the shade, the sun is high
enough to give it warming power and it can be pleasant to sit outdoors on a sheltered, sunny terrace or patio
Barcelona holidays , are the best option for you.