Archives for Solsona

“La Mare” Festival – Solsona (Parc de la Mare de la Font) (el Solsonès)

A day of music, immersion and nature; three elements that combine to bring the territory closer to people from here and also from all around. The event also includes spaces dedicated to the visual arts and gastronomy, with the latter offering local products to those attending._
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Calendars: culture.
Comarques: El Solsonès and Solsona.
Campanyes: summer.
Venues: Solsona (Parc de la Mare de la Font) (Festival 'La Mare').

Festival of Corpus Christi – Solsona (el Solsonès)

The celebration of Corpus Christi at Solsona has become a mini-Festa Major, as some of the most traditional features of local festivities are now celebrated in it, including the participation of giants (traditional local folklore figures). The central acts of this festival are: the wheel of fire, which takes place on the evening before the event; the parade of the blunderbuss bearers; the procession presided over by the Bishop of Solsona; the carpet made of flowers and coloured sawdust in the Plaça de Palau square; and the exhibition of the traditional dancing involving giants, accompanied by the Cobla Juvenil Ciutat
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Calendars: festivals and fairs.
Comarques: El Solsonès and Solsona.
Campanyes: spring.
Venues: Solsona (Festivitat del Corpus).

“Caramelles” (religious songs) – Solsona and various other municipalities in El Solsonès

The Caramella singers take to the street and sing and parade, accompanied by the blunderbuss bearers. In the other municipalities, they tour the different parishes, singing and performing the “ball pla” and “ball de cascavells”, among other dances.
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Calendars: festivals and fairs.
Comarques: El Solsonès and Solsona.
Campanyes: spring.
Venues: Solsona (Caramelles).

POTATO AND TRUFFLE FAIR OF CATALONIA AND WINE FESTIVAL

A fair dedicated to the “trumfo” (which is the local name for the potato in El Solsonès) and the truffle. This fair takes place over a weekend during which producers and pickers offer these two products, which are so typical of the “comarca” (local district), directly to their consumers.   In addition, and coinciding with the fair, there will be a Wine Festival, with the participation of a wine producer from each denomination of origin, tastings of products from El Solsonès, and a number of transversal tastings through which people can learn about the most characteristic features of each DO.  
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Calendars: festivals and fairs and gastronomy.
Comarques: El Solsonès and Solsona.
Campanyes: winter.
Venues: Solsona (Fira del trumfo i la tòfona de Catalunya).