Festivals in Barbastro

Local festivals of Barbastro

The municipal page of Parties points out that the festivities in honour of the Natividad de Nuestra Señora, celebradas del 4 September to 8, are the most important in the Barbastro festive calendar. It also highlights the festivities of San Ramón in the days before and after 21 June, día del patrón.

• Name of the municipality's festivities: festivities in honour of the Nativity of Our Lady and festivities of San Ramón.
• Main celebration day: 8 September for the Nativity of Our Lady and 21 June para San Ramón.
• Usual duration: The September holidays are celebrated from 4 September to 8; San Ramón concentrates events around 21 June and recent programmes extend over several days of the month.
• Usual places: Plaza Constitución, Paseo del Coso, Plaza Aragon, Cathedral, hermitage of San Ramón del Monte, Congress Centre, fairgrounds and other urban spaces according to the programme.
• Associated traditions: proclamation, parade, offering of flowers and fruits, religious events, concerts, children's activities, rallies events, bonfires of San Ramón, pilgrimage to the hermitage, dancers, bagpipers and popular distribution of local products in recent programmes.
• Who participates: City Council, Festival Department, clubs, associations, dance and music groups, brothers, neighbors, families and visitors.
• Other cultural events: Somontano Wine Festival, Gastronomic Exhibition, Holy Week, Candelera Fair, Petronila Medieval Market, Barbastro City International Jazz Festival and municipal cultural agenda.
• Otras ofertas culturales: Cathedral, Barbastro-Monzón Diocesan Museum, Congress Centre, House of Culture, Hermanos Argensola Municipal Library, fair spaces, tourism in Barbastro and Somontano heritage.

The San Ramón programme brings together bonfires, an announcing rocket, a pilgrimage, Mass, dancers, bagpipers and cultural and sporting activities.