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Barcelona Events 2023Sitges Flower Carpet Festival 2023Concurso de Alfombras de Flores SitgesEvent date: Sunday 11th June 2023 Event location: Sitges - 35 mins south of Barcelona ![]() Information: Corpus Christi Flower Carpet Festival - Sitges 2023. The Sitges Corpus Festival celebrates the Corpus Christi for a week from 8 to 18 June 2023 A main event is the Sitges Flower Carpet Festival which is only on Sunday 11th June 2023. The Sitges flower carpet festival is a beautiful and traditional competition called 'Concurso de Alfombras de Flores' and sometimes also called 'Arte Floral del Corpus Christi.' Many Sitges streets will be adorned with flower carpets. Catifa de Flors means flower carpet in the Catalan language. The carpeted streets are called 'catifes' and marked in yellow on the map of the Sitges Corpus celebrations. Residents of Sitges start early in the morning and make lovely patterned street carpets using flowers petals and seeds. The flower carpets are called 'catifes de flors' in Catalan and they cover almost all of the narrow streets of Sitges and some of the plazas. This Sitges floral carpet event has been declared a Spanish 'Fiesta de Interés Turístico Nacional.' Other highlights are the clove fair, called 'mostra de clavells' in Catalan, with over 2000 flower pots and over 100 types of cloves. Corpus Christi is Latin for 'Body of Christ' and is a Catholic festival to honour the Eucharist. The date of Corpus Christi changes every year and falls 60 days after Easter Sunday. Spain it is usually from Thursday after Trinity Sunday - Día del Corpus - until Sunday after Trinity Sunday. The tradition of carpet flower making is thought to have originated in the middle ages in Spain and the Canary islands for the feast of Corpus Christi with decorations and motifs becoming more elaborate over time. Floral carpets also called sawdust carpets can be found in Mexico and South America too. Pictures Sitges flower carpets Website Sitges Corpus Festival Twitter Sitges Corpus Book hotels Sitges © Copyright Barcelonayellow.com Do not copy any text on this page without permission All rights reserved. |
Event address & map![]() How to get to Sitges from BarcelonaSitges is a popular and exclusive sea-side resort located about 45 kilometers south of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain.Sitges is well known for the Sitges Film Festival in October and the Sitges Carnival in February and the Pride Festival in June. Sitges also offers visitors a very nice selection of beaches, nightspots, and historical sites. Open FULLSCREEN map Sitges Sitges tourist office official website Getting to Sitges from Barcelona
The C-32 tollroad is the fastest way to drive to Sitges from Barcelona. It connects Sitges with Barcelona in 30 minutes. You can also take the free C31 coastal road, which is very scenic, but it has many bends and can be quite congested. |
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