The Fiesta de La mercè: Barcelona will grow "real" tower

For over 140 years in the Spanish capital to organize a festival whose history is rooted in the late XVII century, when Barcelona was hit by swarm of locusts. When the people went round the town in procession with the icon of the Holy mother of God, the invasion is over. This event could not go unnoticed — since the mother of God is considered the patroness of Barcelona, and the citizens do not lose the ability to organize Fiеsta de La Megs.
Every year in late September in the heart of Catalonia attracts not just the Spaniards with all the cities, but also tourists from many countries in the hope to see one of the famous festivals of Spain, who in our days has got another meaning — farewell to the summer and the autumn meeting.



From year to year the program of the festival almost do not change, but the skill of the participants, which every year visit Fiеsta de La Megs becomes all the more interesting.
Festival guests will be entertained by professional entertainers, including acrobats, their bodies building a "real" towers, castellers de, recognized as UNESCO intangible cultural heritage of humanity.





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