| Les Festes de Santa EulĂ lia - Fiesta de Santa Eulalia |
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The Festes de Santa Eulà lia is Barcelona’s biggest festival for children. The festival of Santa Eulà lia also known as "La Laia" lasts from 8th to 13th February. The main festival events are on the weekend 8, 9 and 10 February and of course on Tuesday 12, which is Santa Eulà lia's day. In 2008 the Santa Eulà lia festival programme has more than a hundred activities of all kinds, but mostly for children. The activities include street parades with giants and other fantasy figures, human castles, story-telling, puppets, family workshops, talks, concerts and many other events are on the programme for the festival. Other traditional Catalan festival events include Castellers, (human castle building), falcon displays, sardenes dancing and “correfocs” fire-runs of the Petits Diables (little devils) Music plays an very important part in this festival and throughout festivities, music schools, choirs and children's orchestras will perform in location around the city of Barcelona Another very popular item is the photography competition, the Foto Laia 2008 photo competition, on the last day of the Santa Eulà lia festival which is Tuesday 13. This is also when the “Premis Ciutat de Barcelona” awards are announced. The theme of the poster of the Santa Eulà lia festival 2008 features two historic buildings: the Santa Maria del Mar church and the Cathedral of Barcelona. This is because her body was first interred in the church originally called Santa Maria de les Arenes, St. Mary of the Sands, but now known as the Santa Maria del Mar, St. Mary of the Sea, which is in the Born area of Barcelona. Then the remains were hidden in 713 during the Moorish invasion, and only recovered again in 878. In 1339, they were relocated to an alabaster sarcophagus in the crypt of the newly-built Cathedral of Santa Eulalia, where they remain to this day. She died on 12th February 303, which is now Saint Eulà lia’s day. The story of the child saint, Saint Eulà lia (ca. 290-303) is that she was a thirteen-year-old Roman Christian virgin who suffered martyrdom in Barcelona during the persecution of Christians in the reign of emperor Diocletian. For refusing to recant her Christianity, the Romans subjected her to not one, but thirteen different and gruesome tortures; including: Putting her into a barrel with embedded knives or glass and rolling it down a street, which has resulted in a tradition now called “Baixada de Santa Eulalia” Saint Eulalia's descent." Other tortures including cutting off her breasts, crucifixion on an X-shaped cross and other cruelties until the final decapitation. Legend has it that a dove flew from her neck after decapitation. Eulà lia is commemorated with many statues and street names throughout Barcelona. Visit the official website (in Catalan) for more information about events or visit your local library or civic centre, who will be able to tell you more. bcn [dot] cat [slash] santaeulalia |
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