Girona will celebrate the Spring Festivals 2026 from April 17 to 26 with a program focused on popular culture, circus and street activities, with special emphasis on Tarlà as one of the main symbols of the event.
The program will last ten days and will concentrate a good part of its events on weekends. The official start will arrive on Friday, April 17, with two prominent events in the city center. At 8:00 p.m. the event Festival Rockets and Awakening of the Dragon on the Stone Bridge is scheduled and an hour later the inaugural show Fire in Pallol square will be held.
First day with giants, Tarlà and proclamation
The day of April 17 will also include activity from the morning. At 11:00 a.m. a parade of giants and big-heads has been scheduled. At 12:00 p.m. one of the most representative moments of the festivities will arrive with the Hanging of the Tarlà and the proclamation in the street of the Argenteria.
Already in the afternoon, at 16:30 hours the planting of figures will be held in the Plaça del Vi and at 18:00 hours exhibition dances by 'colles' are planned.
Circus and tradition in several points of the center
The program combines popular culture proposals with family shows and open activities in different spaces in Girona. Among them is a circus workshop at 11:00 a.m. on the rambla de la Llibertat, a sardana dance at 6:00 p.m. in the plaça de la Independència and the show Circ El Circ Filixic also at 6:00 p.m. on the Rambla.
The Cathedral will host the Consueta de Sant Jordi in two sessions, at 18:00 and at 21:00. Circ La Paradeta has also been scheduled at 12:00 in Plaça de Catalunya, in addition to L"Elixir de la Vida in two sessions, at 16:30 and at 17:30.
The Barri Vell will be the scene of a gathering of bagpipers at 6:00 p.m., while at 8:00 p.m. a concert has been planned in the Plaça dels Jurats.
The mulasses will have their own space
Another of the programming blocks will be dedicated to the mulasses. At 10:00 hours the setting up is scheduled in La Rambla. Later, at 11:30 hours, the procession of mulasses will depart and at 13:00 hours display dances will be held in the Plaça dels Jurats.
The Spring Festivals will thus once again unfold through some of the most recognizable spaces in the center of Girona, with a proposal that reinforces the role of the Tarlà and of popular culture as the common thread of one of the most emblematic celebrations of the local calendar.