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A room in Can Papiol house-museum in Vilanova i la Geltrú (Penedès, Catalonia).

Since the year 1790 and throughout the 19th century, this was the home of one of the wealthiest families in the small city of Vilanova i la Geltrú: the Papiol family, who owned many vineyards around the city. The house has preserved its 19th century interiors, and nowadays it's a house-museum that allows visitors to see what a 19th century upper class family home was like.

The house includes a library with about 6,000 books written between the 16th and the 19th centuries, as well as a music room, a billiard room, a ballroom where the family hosted music parties and literary meetings, a dining room, the bedrooms, a small private chapel, the servants' rooms, areas for servants to do domestic work and for farmers to do their work, stables, and a little Romantic garden.

Photo by mirades_nostres on Instagram.

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Aurora will perform at Vida Festival in Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain on June 30th, 2023!

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RAMBLA-VILANOVA I LA GELTRU-PINTURA-ART-CAFETERIES-TERRASSES-ARBRES-PAISATGES-LUM-SOL-PINTOR-ERNEST DESCALS por Ernest Descals Por Flickr: RAMBLA-VILANOVA I LA GELTRU-PINTURA-ART-CAFETERIES-TERRASSES-ARBRES-PAISATGES-LUM-SOL-PINTOR-ERNEST DESCALS- En una mañana con mucha luz, el sol lo inunda todo con gran luminosidad, la profundidad de la RAMBLA PRINCIPAL de VILANOVA I LA GELTRÚ, con los árboles y las terrazas de cafeterías y restaurantes, un gripo de personas sentadas tomando el aperitivo en agradable temperatura del final del invierno. Escena paisajista con movimiento humano y tratamiento de luces y personajes. Pintura del artista pintor Ernest Descals sobre papel de 50 x 70 centímetros, cuadros elaborados con acuarelas y gouache.

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People from Vilanova i la Geltrú (Penedès, Catalonia) celebrating their city's festa major (traditional Catalan holiday for the patron day of each town).

Photos by alegresku on Instagram.

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With festa major season coming to an end, I leave you with this beautiful video of how it's celebrated in Vilanova i la Geltrú (Penedès, Catalonia).

Festa major (called festes patronals in some areas) is one of the most popular holidays in Catalan culture, especially in the Southern half of Catalonia. Each town or city holds it on the day of their patron saint and the days around it, which means that each place celebrates it on a different day. Most festes majors happen between June and September, but there are others spread throughout the year.

It's celebrated with a lot of traditions on the streets that bring the community together. Even though it might vary from place to place, generally it goes something like this:

On the weekend before the day, there's the correfoc (the devils' dance and fire beasts from the town invite the ones from other towns and go around the streets).

Even though a few other events might have happened on the week before (such as the "spoken dances"), the festivity proper starts on the patron day's eve at noon with a bang: a loud kind of fireworks (called traca or mascletà or other names depending on the area). These are long lines of little explosives put together with a string, usually set up in the main square. Everyone gatheres around and the firecrackers are set off, with a string of loud sounds to let everyone know that the holiday starts. When it ends, everyone claps and cheers and the church bells ring.

Immediately after the firecrackers, the dance groups start the parade. It's important to know that they are not professional dancers, they are people from the town who sign up to learn the dance they like. These are traditional festa major dances, each group accompanied with their band of musicians. Each group learns their group's music, dance and clothes from the previous generation. They can change from area to area and from town to town.

On that night, there are fireworks and free concerts.

The next day, there are more parades of the dances. For lunch, families meet to have a meal together. In the afternoon, there are more dances again.

In many places, a diada castellera is held. The castellers (traditional Catalan "human towers") groups from other cities and towns are invited to perform in the town square.

You can see many of the dances that are widespread (with local variations in the clothing, choreography, and music) across the Southern half of Catalonia in the video.

You can also see one of the variations done in Vilanova i la Geltrú. There, the holiday starts by hanging a Catalan flag from the most visible point in the city: the church's bell tower. Vilanovins do this as a sign of celebration, because festa major is an icon of Catalan culture but, same as the rest of Catalan culture, it has had to endure a lot of hardships. Thanks to the fight of many people, Spain's attempt to ethnocide the Catalan people didn't succeed. Even though we had to keep speaking our language and celebrating some of our holidays in secret during Franco's fascist dictatorship of Spain (1939-1978), most of it has survived and still thrives, once again in public.

The song used in the video is one of the songs danced in the holiday. It's a traditional song from Catalonia and Occitania which we call "la polca d'Ours" (in Occitania they call it "la dansa de l'ors").

This beautiful video was made by Crispetes Films filming the 2024 holiday. It was posted by Festa Major Vilanova i la Geltrú's Instagram page.

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The sea quarter of Vilanova i la Geltrú (Penedès, Catalonia) celebrating its festa major (Catalan holiday that each town, city, or quarter celebrates on the day of their local patron saint with traditional dances, concerts, and parties) on the day of Saint Peter.

Saint Peter is the patron saint of fishermen, and for this reason he is the patron saint of many towns or neighbourhoods that have historically been dedicated to fishing.

Video by paucafi on Instagram.

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Carnival celebrated in Vilanova i la Geltrú (Penedès, Catalonia), 2022.

The week of Carnival comes right before Lent (the period where traditionally people had to abstain from excesses), so to make up for it, people can do what they want to have fun. Like other festivities with a religious origin, it follows the moon calendar, so every year it falls on a different week. The date is set on 7 weeks after the first full moon after the winter solstice.

The king Carnestoltes arrives to every town in Catalonia to rule for a week, and during his reign he encourages everyone to behave with no considerations for the usual rules of society.

In the Catalan language we have the saying “per Carnaval tot s’hi val”, which means “for Carnival, everything is valid/allowed”. You can make fun of the authorities, dress as you wish, and act in all sorts of crazy ways.

Photos by Vilanova i la Geltrú city hall on Flickr.