Food & Drink
Those Catalans
and their Calçots!
A calçotada is basically a BBQ with lots of calçots and lots of meat. It’s great fun, even if a bit messy. Best not wear your best outfit!
A calçotada is basically a BBQ with lots of calçots and lots of meat. It’s great fun, even if a bit messy. Best not wear your best outfit!
The most (in)famous Carnavales happen in Rio de Janeiro and New Orleans. Costa Brava Carnavales are smaller in scale but still lots of fun!
Sea urchins go by many monikers in Catalan: garotes, urissos, oriços, eriçons de mar (sea hedgehogs), but in Palafrugell they are garoines!
Every 14 February cards, flowers & chocolates are exchanged between loved ones in the name of St. Valentine. How did these traditions begin?
Unlike many other countries, Spanish public holidays are not standard across the country. Some holidays vary by region or even municipality.
Catalans have some pretty unusual Christmas traditions not found anywhere else in Spain, or elsewhere, some of them involving poo. Yes, poo!
Halloween is often seen as an American custom, but where did it really originate and why is it observed around the world? And in Catalunya?
The Feast Day of Sant Joan on 24 June is a Public Holiday in Catalunya and marks the start of the tourist season proper on the Costa Brava.
St Jordi is the patron saint of Catalunya and on his feast day on 23 April men and women exchange red roses and books as tokens of affection
What better way to get your Sunday off to a great start than with a pre-lunch “vermut” or two? No need to feel guilty, it’s the done thing!
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