Barcelona Photoblog: Catalan traditions

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Showing posts with label Catalan traditions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Catalan traditions. Show all posts
August 18, 2023

Festes de Gràcia: A Celebration of Community and Catalan Culture

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The Festes de Gràcia, also known as the Festa Major de Gràcia, is the largest festival held each year in the charming neighborhood of ...
August 22, 2021

Beasts of Barcelona - The Lion - El Lleo de la Ciutat

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  What better to resume Barcelona Photoblog's posting than showing one of the leading figures in our festivities and an important membe...
June 24, 2019

Sant Joan's Eve Cocas and Fireworks

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One more year Catalonia and its capital Barcelona celebrate the arrival of summer with this traditional festivity known as Revetlla de Sa...
November 23, 2017

Becoming a Pubilla, An Ancestral Tradition in Catalonia

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Every year pubilles and hereus from all over Catalonia participate in a contest summoned by organizations that promote traditions of ...
February 28, 2013

Caganers and Politicians

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Caganers and politicians have one thing in common, they both do the same s***. Caganers do it on the floor and it looks funny, politici...
December 04, 2012

Stick Dancers or Bastoners: Anklet with Bells Detail

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Catalan folklore feeds on ancient traditions lost in the common past of Mediterranean countries. Stick dance (Cat. Ball de Bastons ) was...
January 29, 2012

L'Ou Com Balla or The Dancing Egg, Barcelona Cathedral

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L'Ou Com Balla tradition at Barcelona Cathedral, Barri Gotic, Barcelona In the cloister of the Cathedral of Barcelona there is a b...
December 07, 2011

What Will Cagatio Bring For Christmas?

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El Tio de Nadal or Cagatio (Christmas log, pooping log or shit log) a piece of wood that kids hit on Christmas eve or Christmas day with...
September 27, 2010

Catalan Pubilla and Dancing Partner

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There was a very similar image in Barcelona Photoblog of a young maiden or pubilla dancing in Monistrol, a town at the foot of Montserr...
December 27, 2009

L'Auca del Senyor Esteve, Tile Work at Carrer Petritxol, Barcelona

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This tile work depicts L'Auca del Senyor Esteve based upon a novel by Santiago Rusiñol i Prats (1861-1931) published in 1907 and s...
December 24, 2009

We Cagatios, the Whole Log Family Together Wish you a Merry Christmas!

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Hello my friends, we don't have snow, we haven't seen Santa Claus yet but we are all here awake, waiting for the magic moments t...
October 12, 2009

Catalan Dance - Pubilla and Hereu

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Some time ago families with no sons considered their first born daughter to be their heiress. In case there were several daughters, the ...
January 27, 2009

Catalan Traditional Dress and Pubillas

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A Catalan woman wearing the traditional dress. You should know that there are some differences between the traditional garment and a pub...
November 17, 2008

Cagatio or Pooping Log, A Christmas Catalan Tradition

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Another ancestral tradition of the Catalan people consists in bringing children in front of this magic log called Cagatio (pooping log)...
November 16, 2008

Barcelona Caganers: Rafa Nadal

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Among the many traditions of Catalonia, there is one which is rather peculiar: the Caganers . These small figures that originally repres...
November 08, 2008

Dancers Holding Hands

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Catalan folk dancers holding hands dressed as the heir or hereu and heiress or pubilla during a performance at Monistrol de Montserrat. Ra...
June 24, 2008

Sant Joan Firecrackers: Launching Gadget Closeup

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The word petardo in Spanish or petard in Catalan has different meanings: banger , firecracker , that is, a small explosive device. Not onl...
March 12, 2008

Catalan Traditions: Calçotada. A Close Look

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Half way between leeks and onions, there is a plant known in Catalonia as calçot which has become part of our most popular traditions, ...
March 11, 2008

Catalan Food: White Sausages and Spring BBQs

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This boiled white sausage ristra I captured with my camera a long time ago but now that Spring is coming and people in Catalonia tend to set...
October 22, 2007

Gathering Wild Mushrooms or Bolets in Catalonia, Spain

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In the months of October and November a large number of Catalans hit the road to go picking wild mushrooms or bolets in the countryside. Al...
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