Barcelona Weekend Break

Fiestas (festivals) in Barcelona

The greater area or province of Barcelona is filled with towns and villages and everyone of these hamlets, however large or small, has its own fiestas.

What you can expect to see, hear and eat at a fiesta depends on what it is celebrating, or commemorating and how large or small it is. Many fiestas include music and dance and the gastronomic festivals normally include food and wine as well.

Fiestas are usually happy occasions and although some of the larger events have been “tweeked” to provide a tourist spectacle, most remain authentic and form an important connection with a communities history or faith.

In total the Barcelona province has over 300 different festival celebrations and that means that finding a fiesta close to Barcelona is never difficult, whatever the time of year.

Some fiestas arrive on a fixed day or date annually, but others relate to a more flexible calendar position by occurring on e.g. the last Sunday of a particular month.

The best way to find out where and when any festivals are taking place during your weekend break is to check in with a local tourist office while you are in Barcelona. Most of the Barcelona city tourist offices can usually give schedules, directions and sometimes local maps to the festival destination in question. If you are interested in fiestas that center around music, or music and performances, then this Music Festivals page will tell you more about some of the main annual events.

The main festivals in Barcelona city are listed below

The dates shown are for the 2007 fiesta season and may vary slightly for subsequent years, so please check.

• Festa Major de Sant Antoni in the city of Barcelona
  17 January



• Santa Eulàlia in the city of Barcelona
  12 February



• Festes de Sant Medir in the city of Barcelona
  3 March



• Festa de Sant Josep in the city of Barcelona
  19 March



• Festa Major Sagrada Família in the city of Barcelona
  23 April



• Festa Major de Gràcia in the city of Barcelona
  15 August



• Festa Major de Sants in the city of Barcelona
  24 August



• Festa Major del Poblin the city ofou in the city of Barcelona
  3 September



• La Mercè in the city of Barcelona
  24 September



• Festa Major de Sant Andreu 2007 in the city of Barcelona
  30 Novemebr and 9 December



• Nadal 2007 in the city of Barcelona
  21 December and 6 January

For a complete list of the Barcelona province’s fiestas, see this website (which unfortunately is in Spanish only) barcelona.fiestas.net It has several pages listing the fiestas chronologically and includes nearly all of the towns and smaller villages in the province.