Category: Past events

The culinary festival La poma a la cuina, Apples in the Kitchen, takes place in Torroella de Montgrí and L’Estartit annually in October. Right after harvest, local participating restaurants add apple-inspired dishes to their menus and serve prix-fixe meals in which fresh and baked apples play the starring role. Read more about this delicious event.

One of the largest wine showcases in the region, the Empordà Wine Fair takes place in Figueres, Alt Empordà, on the second weekend of September. Figueres, a popular tourist destination thanks to Salvador Dalí, turns into a bustling scene of wine tasting, wine shopping, and general wine merry-making for 4 days. The Empordà Wine Fair […]

Transport yourself to the Medieval times and experience the sights, the sounds, and the tastes of the Middle Ages at the annual festival Terra de Trobadors taking place in Castelló de Empúries the second week of September. Terra de Trobadors was first organized in 1991 by the group of troubadours CREMM-TROBAR from Carcassonne with the […]

The annual race Oxfam Trailwalker, taking place in the Costa Brava every March-April, is a popular endurance event whose premise is simple: the participants need to cover the 100 km distance between Olot and Sant Feliu de Guíxols in 32 hours. You may run, walk or crawl, take breaks for food and rest whenever you […]

Since 1996, every July, the town La Bisbal de l’Empordà hosts a street circus. The festival Fira de Circ al Carrer (“Circus Festival on the Street”) traditionally takes place on a Friday evening, followed by two full days of performances on Saturday and Sunday in the second half of the month. Circus artists perform all […]

An annual fair Fira de Sant Martirià takes place in Banyoles every third weekend of November. Its history dates back to 1243, but the event became a traditional, annual occurrence in the 1970s. The spotlight of the Fair is on horse showcase competitions. Besides the expected purebred Arabian and Spanish stallions, breeders also showcase horses […]

The annual Medieval Fair of Peratallada, Fira Medieval de Peratallada, takes place on the first weekend of October in Peratallada. Its guests are mainly the residents of nearby villages and their families. For two days, the streets of Peratallada are packed with tents of the local farmers, bakers, and handicraftsmen. Visitors are welcome to sample […]

The first half of May in Girona is the time traditionally reserved for its much beloved and internationally renowned floral festival Temps de Flors. Busloads of visitors arrive by the minute, the main sights have lines snaking around the block and popular restaurants start adding flower petals to soups and salads. The Girona Flower Festival […]

Spanish “Indianos” are a small group of people who have immigrated to Latin America in search of a better life and then returned to the homeland millionaires. In Begur, whose population today does not exceed even 5 thousand people, the Indianos population is coincidentally quite large, and most of them have made their fortune in […]