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As in September every year, Barcelona is now preparing to celebrate the festivities in honor of the city\u2019s patron saint, the Mare de D\u00e9u de la Merc\u00e8. The famous Festes de la Merc\u00e8 will light up the heart of Barcelona with a number of traditional activities and an attractive program of music, dance, theatre, and other kinds of entertainment<\/a> between the 22 and 25 of September<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>An explosion of art, tradition, and folk culture<\/strong><\/h2>\n

With the exception of the pandemic year of 2020, the Festes de la Merc\u00e8 have been held uninterruptedly for the last 46 years. The festival always features Catalan folk culture and a cultural program that evolves to meet the tastes of an ever-changing society. To bid farewell to the summer in style, Barcelona will be filled with music, sardana traditional dances, correfoc fire-runners, processions of \u201cgiants,\u201d and castellers, who will build their legendary human castles.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>New in 2023<\/strong><\/h2>\n

This year, the well-known writer Najat el Hachimi<\/a> will inaugurate the festival in the Sal\u00f3 de Cent on 22 September, and the poster advertising the festival has been designed by the artist Chamo San and features a large human castle with characters representing Barcelona\u2019s open and diverse culture. Kyiv will be this year\u2019s guest city<\/a> and will present Barcelona with two \u201cgiants\u201d in honor of its holy princes Olga and Volodimir. Similarly, the Ukrainian capital will be showcasing its culture in Barcelona with a workshop and show entitled Magic of Ukrainian Folklore by the Berehynia Kyiv Academic Theater.\u201d There will also be contemporary dance by the Ukrainian dancer Alina Sokulska.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>The Merc\u00e8 has a number of different components: The Merc\u00e8 Arts de Carrer street arts festiva<\/a>l<\/a>, showcasing new creations and emerging artistic talent, which this year is taking place in the Parc de l'Estaci\u00f3 del Nord<\/a> and in the Consell de Cent superilla pedestrian area<\/a>The Terra i Gust event held in the Ciutadella Park will be offering music and a sustainable food fair. And BAM (Barcelona Acci\u00f3 Musical), Cultura Viva and Merc\u00e8 M\u00fasica will fill the streets of the city with numerous musical performances by local, national and international artists in locations that include Pla\u00e7a Reial, Jardins Pla i Armengol, Rambla del Raval and Moll de la Fusta.<\/p>\n

La Merc\u00e8 will end, as is now traditional, on Avinguda de la Reina Maria Cristina<\/a> with the Piromusical, an explosion of light and sound that is sure to impress everyone.<\/p>\n

A festival steeped in history<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Much has been said about this festival, but what do we really know about Barcelona\u2019s most popular festival? The festivities of la Merc\u00e8 are held on 24 September, and legend has it that on that night in 1218, the Virgin appeared to three illustrious figures\u2014King Jaume I, Sant Pere Nolasc and Sant Ramon de Penyafort\u2014and requested them to set up a religious order of monks whose task would be to rescue Christians imprisoned in the lands of the Saracens.<\/p>\n

Since that event, a number of events that have taken place in Barcelona have been attributed to the miraculous intervention of La Merc\u00e8. In 1687, for example, the people of Barcelona invoked her to protect them when a plague of locusts invaded the city. When the plague was over, inhabitants of Barcelona continued to call on her to face misfortunes and adopted her unofficially as their patron saint. In 1821, the people of Barcelona organized a procession to ask for the intercession of the Virgin of La Merc\u00e8 in the yellow fever epidemic that was breaking out in Barcelona. And she was officially declared patron saint of the city in 1868 by Pope Pius IX.<\/p>\n

The origin of the Festa Major de la Merc\u00e8 itself, however, dates back to September 1868, following the declaration of Pope Pius IX. It should be noted, however, that there were originally a number of acts and events held in the month of September itself, but there was no major event in her honor. Some chroniclers and historians have dated 1871 as the year in which the first real festival of La Merc\u00e8 was held and Francesc de Paula Rius i Taulet, a city councillor, is believed to have been the driving force behind it.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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