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Festival of el Renaixement de Tortosa

Tortosa, Baix Ebre, Tarragona

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Festival of el Renaixement de Tortosa

Activity · Tortosa, Baix Ebre, Tarragona

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The Festa del Renaixement is held in Tortosa in the third week of July under the motto l'esplendor d'una ciutat del segle XVI (the splendour of a 16th-century city), and transforms the old town with recreational and cultural activities, set among emblematic buildings such as the Santa Maria basilica-cathedral, the Palau Episcopal, the Reials Col·legis and the walls of the Suda castle. Declared a Fiesta de Interés Turístico Nacional (Spain's highest national tourist-interest designation) and a Festa d'Interès Turístic de Catalunya (Catalonia's own tourist-interest designation), it mobilises more than 500 actors, 60 shows and 3,000 residents dressed in period costume, together with shopkeepers and tavern-keepers, and its high point is the parade and display of arms in honour of the banners of the Vegueria de Tortosa.

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