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Sant Joan i els Elois Main Festival

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Sant Joan i els Elois Main Festival

Activity · Prats de Lluçanès, Lluçanès, Barcelona

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Summer Festa Major of Prats de Lluçanès, in the Lluçanès (Barcelona), dedicated to Sant Joan and to Sant Eloi, patron of the traginers or muleteers, from whom they took the name Elois. It dates back to the late 19th century, when the traginers gathered on 25 June with their animals decked out with blankets and bells to dance the Contrapàs and run with them to the hermitage of Sant Sebastià. The festival declined with the disappearance of the trade, but in 1979 the Grup Germanor revived the dance. Today it begins on the 24th at dusk with the arrival of the flame of Canigó and a torchlight procession with animals and carriages; on the 25th the route is repeated and the Elois are run along the road to Sant Sebastià.

24-25 de juny

Photo: Pere López (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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