In just a week it will be the Barcelona’s patron saint day and the center of the city will be transformed in a big party with music, dances and gunpowder. The celebrations will start on thursday 22th september at Plaça San Jaume with the Toc de inici where there will be the dance show of th Giants of Barcelona. On saturday morning the Trabucaires will wake up everyone by firing their blunderbuss all over the streets of the gothic quarter of Barcelona.

On 24th and 25th september there will be show of Sardanas, the traditional catalan dances, on different squares of the center. On saturday at 12h30 you can not miss the Castellers exhibition where several teams will build and dismantle human tower’s structure that can have up to 10 levels!

For the fireworks lovers you will have the choice, you cannot miss the Correfoc, where people dressed like devils light fireworks while dancing to the drums. There will also be the classic firework exhibition on the Barceloneta beach and the musical firework that will be the final bouquet of the festival that will be fired from the Magical Fountain.

You can find more details of the festival here.

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Thursday 15 September 2011 19:14 | Published by Blogtelopia-krds2 | Categoriy: General Tourism,events