Barcelona is celebrating the Merce 2016
Bouncelona invites you to the biggest festival of Barcelona. Amazing, unbelievable and unique: Merce.
If you are in Barcelona around 24th of September the first thing what we advise to you after reserve a bike tour with us is check the program of the biggest festival of the city.
“Every year, around September 24th, Barcelona celebrates La Mercè, patron saint of the city, and its Festa Major. A festival of festivals, it draws together between 1.500.000 and 2.000.000 people during its week-long run. Festivities, cultural and artistic, take place throughout the city in differing public spaces.
La Mercè transforms Barcelona into a grand stage bursting with fantasy and imagination. Creativity is the driving force behind it, traditions its roots, and music an outstanding voice. Over 600 activities and shows go on during the week with more than 2000 artists and professionals taking part.
The wide artistic endeavor embodies the city’s values. A key element is the involvement of a large number of local groups and associations, with sponsorship and collaboration from private companies. All events are free.
La Mercè aims to be a reflection of the city itself – enterprising, creative and inventive. Barcelona is a city moving forward with a search for innovation and evolution. The Festival manages to maintain its quality while at the same time it is searching for and presenting new trends.” http://www.bcn.cat/merce/docs/en/LaMerce16_EN.pdf
Amazing cultural activities: dance, circus, street theatre, concerts.
Large scale of events after dark: fire, light, images, technology.
In the programme of traditional culture always included are:
«Toc D’inici », Cavalcade, Castellers, Sardanes, Dances, Correfoc, Bastoners, Grallers, Trabucaires…600.000 people on the street.
Guest city of 2016: Paris
Barcelona is an open city, a meeting point, a melting pot of cultures, origins and believes, that have left a mark in the history of our land. La Mercè encloses the Guest City program aimed to bringing Barcelona’s people closer to the different cultures with which they coexist. Through this parallel program, a city from somewhere else in the world is invited to present its culture and its top artistic proposals.
Program of Merce 2016: http://lameva.barcelona.cat/merce/es