Category: Upcoming events

In anticipation of All Saints’ Day, mobile grills baking chestnuts and sweet potato appear on squares and streets of every town and village in Catalonia. Passersby have an option of pairing these seasonal treats with the local dessert wine made from the Moscatel grape. Depending on the locale, the event is called either castañada (in […]

Carbonera is an educational festival dedicated to the disappeared trade of charcoal burning. The festival starts on the first Saturday of October and lasts for four weeks. It takes place on the estate Mas Frigola next to the village Sant Climent de Peralta in the municipality of Forallac. The first Carbonera took place in 1993.

A celebration of wine and terroir marked by guided tastings, open-air concerts, and exquisite meals paired with local wines of DO Empordà in the Costa Brava.

Arrels del Vi is a professional wine fair for sommeliers, enologists, distributors and restaurateurs, open and accessible to the public. The event takes place in a unique location of Sant Martí d’Empúries, usually around the first weekend of June. Find more details and the Arrels del Vi fair programme on its official website: www.arrelsdelvi.com

La Trobada Gegantera means “The Encounter of Giants” in Catalan. In L’Escala the meaning is literal: prior to the celebration of the town’s festa mayor, the locals get together at the end of August to parade the colourful emblematic figures of Giants (“gegantes”) and the Big Heads (“capgrossos”) around town—the so-called Trobada Gegantera de l’Escala. […]