Christmas lights now on around the streets of Barcelona
Christmas 2023. The Christmas lighting contract for 2023 is worth 1,915,267,89 euros in total.
Christmas 2023. The Christmas lighting contract for 2023 is worth 1,915,267,89 euros in total.
All Saints, and autumn in general, would be very different without the season's three top dishes: chestnuts, panellet cakes and sweet potatoes.
Would you like to take a walk around the lost Barcelona, accompanied by the explanations of historian Dani Cortijo and the 'Costumari Català’ (Catalan Customs) by Joan Amades?
The month of November marks a turning point in the calendar: the days start getting shorter and the chill sets in. In the past, pastoral and agrarian societies saw this day as the end of a cycle. This is why All Saints' Day is such a symbolic...
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.
Although it has almost been forgotten today, the All Saints festival used to have a rich theatrical tradition, with dances of the dead, and above all, all kinds of performances of 'Don Juan Tenorio'
Christmas. The Christmas lights will operate from 23 November to 6 January, during the same hours as in 2022.
The revived comparsa “Visca Picasso!” will also participate in some of the folk culture events at La Mercè.
This year, it will be held on Saturday 23 September on Passeig de Gràcia between Carrer de Provença and Carrer del Consell de Cent for the third year in a row.
Sardana dancing is one of La Mercè festival’s oldest and practically uninterrupted features.