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Vilafranca's 'Tots Sants' Day of Human Towers
on Nov 1, 2009 in Castellers Penedes Discover Catalan Culture Today, while many Catalans went to cementaries to look after late family members, we went to Vilafranca del Penedès, to watch the Diada de Tots Sants. My two small sons were extremely noisy in the car, but I still managed to catch a comment from the...
The Event Calendar - November 2009 - by Wirdheim.cat
on Oct 29, 2009 in Event Calendar A first version – soon to be up-dated:The Wirdheim.CAT Event Calendar has a focus on activities typical for the Catalan popular culture and is presented under the headlines Human Towers, Festa Major, Other Events and Exhibitions.General information...
Victor Balaguer, 'Surge et Ambula'!
on Oct 26, 2009 in Vilanova Discover Catalonia Society On October 26, 1884, politician Victor Balaguer inaugurated his own museum here in Vilanova. Last Sunday, actor Lluís Soler read his 125 year old opening speech for the many people who had come to celebrate the renovation of the façade of this buil...
Falcons de Vilanova Ending their 2009 Season
on Oct 25, 2009 in Catalan Culture Vilanova Discover Falcons Since we have temperatures which make you think of a good Swedish summer, it is difficult to understand that the teams which build human towers (castellers) or falcon constructions (the acrobatic version) are about to end their seasons. But we have a...
Erotic Emotions Let Loose in Vilanova
on Oct 21, 2009 in Vilanova Society Vilanova Right Now Last Friday, La Sala – Vilanova’s Centre of Contemporary Art – opened the doors to two new exhibitions. The main one is called ‘Eros+Ismes: L’erotisme i la subjectivitat creativa’ (Eroticism and the creative subjectivity). It arrives in o...
Vilanova Commemorates Lluís Companys
on Oct 15, 2009 in Catalan Culture Catalonia Society Last year, I wrote quite extensively about Lluís Companys - a democratically elected president of the Generalitat who was executed - and why he is being commemorated on October 15. This year, and for the first time, I observed how this is being done...
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