After the Festa Major de Gràcia, the Festes de Sants are the most anticipated of Barcelona’s summer. At the end of August, when the sun is no longer so scorching and at night we can start to wear a rebequita, begins a week of festivities with which to face the arrival of September and the end of the vacations with a better mood.
This year,the Festa Major de Sants 2023 will be held from August 19 to 27 and, as is tradition, the opening speech will give the starting shot to nine days of activities, concerts and popular culture. The Companyia Elèctrica Dharma, of Santsenc origin, will be the town crier of this edition, which will end on Sunday 27th with a pyromusical show.
So grab a pen and paper because we tell you everything you need to know not to miss anything of the Festa Major de Sants 2023.
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The decorations cover the streets
One of the main attractions of the Festes de Sants is the decoration of the streets. The tradition of covering the streets with decorations dates back to 1943 and, although it was paused for a few years, it is still deeply rooted in the neighborhood and attracts hundreds of visitors.
On Monday 21 will take place the awards ceremony of the contest of decorations of the Festa Major de Sants 2023 and these 12 streets will participate :
- Alcolea de Baix
- Alcolea de Dalt
- Plaça de la Farga and Rossend Arús street
- Finlàndia
- Guadiana
- Papin
- Robrenyo
- Sagunt
- Valladolid
- Galileu
- Vallespir de Dalt
- Vallespir de Baix
The life of the neighborhood reflected in the poster
Sara Ros Mencía, an illustrator from Poble-Sec, has won the 27th Festa Major de Sants Poster Contest. In it she wanted to reflect the life of the neighborhood and, therefore, you can see several neighbors together singing, dancing and playing instruments in the street. According to the author, Sants is built thanks to its inhabitants, diverse and different from each other, but together they give life to the neighborhood.
A santsenc group, the Festa’s town crier
The Companyia Elèctrica Dharma is a Santsenc band that first took the stage 50 years ago. This 2023, two of the group’s members, the Fortuny brothers, will be in charge of giving the opening speech at the start of the Festa Major on Saturday, August 19 at 8 pm at the Casa del Mig in the Parc de l’Espanya Industrial.
In addition, they will also play live on Tuesday at 22:30h. at Plaça Sant Climent.
All concerts and activities
For two weeks, there are dozens of activities, concerts and exhibitions of popular culture.
On Tuesday 22nd there will be nine sopars de germanor simúltaneos in different streets of the neighborhood. That same night, there will also be a scaperoom on Carrer Robrenyo.
The concerts will not only be on the weekend, but there will be live music almost every day. Some of the groups that will play are Al-lèrgiques al Pol-len, Companyia Elèctrica Dharma, Ven’nus and Figa Flawas.
You can check all the detailed programming on the website of the City Council.