- Autumn. Buy roasted chestnuts and sweet potatoes to the “castanyeres”, ladies selling this autumn products in their street stalls. There is usually one of them in the crossing of la Rambla with the street Cardenal Casañas.
- Week before the 24th of September. La Mercè. The main festival of the city, honoring our holy patron, the Virgin of Mercy. Human towers, sardana dancing, folk demonstrations, traditional parades for children, the exciting fire run “correfoc”, concerts and street shows, and the spectacular firework and music festival “Piromusical”. In Plaça Catalunya near Portal de l’Àngel you will find an information point.
- 1st of November. We don’t celebrate Halloween here, but the All Saints day. I won’t recommend you to visit our cemeteries (as locals will do to honor their beloved ones), but to visit a pastry shop and buy some “panellets”, delicious marzipan and nut sweets that are the traditional desert for this day.
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