Last Saturday, November 22, Barcelona officially turned on its spectacular Christmas lights, kicking off the most magical and sweetest time of the year. This 2025, the city has proposed to go beyond the 126 kilometers of lights in streets and avenues, betting on unique installations with the signature of local design studios that seek to turn the walk through the city into an artistic experience.
And if we talk about unique installations, the Disseny Hub Barcelona (DHUB) takes the cake. When you visit the space this holiday season, you’ll come across a most appetizing surprise: a giant Roscón de Reyes, six meters in diameter, installed in the lobby, which could well be the star of a monumental Epiphany snack.
The installation that teleports you to the Epiphany table
Under the title Al voltant (Around), the design studio Gracias Grecia has transformed this traditional Christmas bun into an inflatable, luminous and, attention, interactive piece. This work is not just a festive decoration, but invites visitors to relive that moment of tension and fun that is generated when cutting the roscón at home.
At the heart of the installation is a yellow button with a question that triggers the festive adrenaline: “What is your piece of roscón hiding? Press it to find out. By pressing it, visitors face their Christmas fate: they can get the king’s luck (the figurine), the bean penance (and, therefore, pay for the roscón), or simply a piece of roscón with nothing in it, which is the most prudent option.
As icing on the cake, on the day of the inauguration the DHUB invited attendees to a royal tasting of tortell de Reyes, bringing the holiday to the end of November.