Costa Brava Guide

If you really want to understand the personality of the local people, you have to join in the town festivals, when everybody in the locality comes out to enjoy the celebration.

Havaneres Festivals - The songs known as havaneres take their name from the city of Havana, Cuba. They were brought back to the coastal towns of Girona by sailors, soldiers and expatriates returning from Spain’s Caribbean colonies, and were quickly adopted into the Spanish operetta, the zarzuela, partly due to the ...

Music Festivals - In our district you can also enjoy extensive seasons of music of very varied types. These seasons and festivals have emerged in response to the evident public interest in hearing classical and chamber music, jazz and other genres, and in discovering the music made in the rest of the world and by ...

Sant Jordi - Strange that a third century Armenian saint would have such popular appeal in western Europe. Saint George (Sant Jordi in Catalan, San Jorge in Spanish) is revered as the patron saint of Catalonia and Aragon, as well as England, Greece, Portugal and Russia. While little is known of the life of the ...

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