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Sant Pere Main Festival of Reus

Reus, Baix Camp, Tarragona

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Sant Pere Main Festival of Reus

Activity · Reus, Baix Camp, Tarragona

Reus's Festa Major in honour of Sant Pere, with a week of popular and cultural events concentrated between 24 and 29 June, the central day being dedicated to the saint. The celebration goes back to the founding of the city, in the 12th century, and gained strength in 1625-1626 with the arrival of a relic of Saint Peter. It brings together traditional elements such as the gegants, the mulassa, the ball de bastons, the nanos, the ball de diables and the Xiquets de Reus, as well as the tronades, salvoes of firecrackers that mark the high points, the last of them when the image of the saint returns to the church on the night of the 29th. It is declared a Festa patrimonial d'interès nacional (a heritage festival declared of national interest by the Generalitat de Catalunya).

24-29 de juny

Photo: Salvador Sainz (Public domain)

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