| Discover Catalonia and Spain like a local person, not a tourist... Have you ever seen great trembling towers up to ten storyes high, made from people? Or a dragon breathing fire over crowds of dancing people? Every year, spectacular folkloric festivals transform the towns of Catalonia into fantastical worlds of giants, dragons, fire devils and human castles. culTOURa specializes in private tours, day trips and study abroad excursions from Barcelona that explore authentic culture and traditions. Discover what real life is like here as a local person, not as a tourist. |
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Catalan festivals are big celebrations in a town or village at a specific time of the year. The Catalan word for festival, “festa”, can not be translated in English. We use “festival”, although this term is usually associated with a commercial event in Catalonia such as a Cheese and Wine Festival. The Catalan word “festa”, refers to a non-commercial magical celebration by townsfolk that takes place in a ritual like fashion every year.
Many Catalan festivals have been in recorded existence for more than 600 years, and have also been given a religious signification. Often, Catalan festivals are based around the Agricultural calendar, the seasons of the year and the Equinox cycles. For the people of a town, the most important events at a Catalan festival are the folkloric festival elements such as Human Castles, Giants, Big headed dwarfs, fire devils and folkloric dancing. They are colourful and magical times, when kids, teenagers, adults and grandparents are all out on the street celebrating. Catalan festivals are an incredible way to integrate with local culture. Find out more about private tours to Catalan festivals from Barcelona.
Catalan festivals are real life cultural traditions celebrated by local people. If you are a traveller, not a tourist, you will be curious to experience real life Catalan traditions and local Catalan culture. Forget traditional preconceived concepts of private tours and day trips from Barcelona. This is a a private and exclusive tour designed to let you live life like a Catalan person for one day, doing the things that local people do.
If you want a packed tour bus in Barcelona with one very overworked Barcelona tour guide to tell you all the tourist information you can read about for yourself in any Barcelona tour guide book, culTOURa private tours from Barcelona are not for you. If, however, you want to experience Catalan life and traditions like a local person, celebrating unusual and extraordinary real life Catalan festivals, this is the right private and exclusive tour from Barcelona for you! Find out more about Catalan festival private tours from Barcelona.
Read more about Catalan Festivals by culTOURa Coordinator and cultural journalist, Genevieve Shaw, in Resident Magazine for Catalonia.
 culTOURa_Resident Mag 2006.pdf
Why do we run private and exclusive tours from Barcelona, and not large group tours?
We want to show you life as it is lived by Catalan people in Catalonia. We don't want you to feel like a tourist, but to blend in and experience local life like a local person. We want you to do what locals do, eat what they eat and feel what they feel. We feel that private and exclusive tours are the best way of achieving this. If you were with twenty five other foreigners, you would most likely feel like a tourist - not a local. This is the simple reason why we run private and exclusive tours from Barcelona. If, however, you would like to organize a private and exclusive tour for a large group of people, contact us and we will see how we can make the experience as authentic as possible. Find out more about Catalan festival private tours from Barcelona. Read more about private tours and personalized day trips from Barcelona, exploring local culture.
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