It’s the last weekend of August now, which means summer is firmly coming to an end. We’ve had some fantastic events take place, Notting Hill Carnival, Berlin Fashion Week, Cardiff International Food and Drink Festival and Grec Festival in Barcelona. Well we’re going to head back to Barcelona now for the final weekend before we hit Autumn – Festa Major de Sants 2014.
The Sants Festival takes place on the Sants neighbouhood of Barcelona and overlaps with another popular neighbourhood festival – Festa Major de Gracia. Sants festival is not quite as famous as the Gracia equivalent, however it’s equally as worth making the trip along. Most of the activity takes place along “Parc de l’Espanya Industrial”, however a walk around the 16 streets of the Sants which are all decorated by the residents in beautiful colours.
You’ll get plenty of chances to see Catalan traditions like the correfoc (firerun) for children and adults. The Diada Castellera, which is the human castle building day of the Festa Major de Sants. You’ll also get the chance to see giants and massive heads being paraded through the streets (gegants and capgrossos) at various points throughout the festival.
Sports highlights of the Sants Festival include the bike race Cursa Ciclista ‘Memorial Antoni Andrés Sancho and the 2k run called “2000 de Sants – Cursa atlètica de la Festa Major”. Both of which generally always take place on the last Sunday of the festival.
The Sants festival is finished with a firework display and musical performances. You can see full details of everything that will be taking place at the festival at the official Festa Major Sants website.
That’s just one of the things going on this weekend in the thriving city of Barcelona. You can download Trippa Barcelona here to find all of the best sights to see, hotels to sleep in, restaurants to eat and bars to drink in. If you’re not making the trip to Barcelona this weekend, why not look at one of our other guides like: Trippa Athens, Berlin, Cardiff, Helsinki, Marseille, Palma, Oslo, Reykjavik, Seville or Stockholm
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