Alcanar Main Festival Activity · Alcanar, Montsià, Tarragona Image of Alcanar, not of the place itself. Alcanar's Festa Major is held in a village whose Christian resettlement was consolidated in 1252, in a district already occupied by Iberian settlements since the 7th century BC. Photo: Almaboix (CC BY-SA 4.0) What to see and do in Alcanar