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Ball de Bastons - Stick dancing. The dance of the sticks called 'Ball de Bastons.' This is a Catalan folk dancefold and the dancers are called Bastoners. The origins are not clear, but it probably can be traced back to battles fought with sword ...
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CCCC. Coordinator of Colles Castelleres de Catalunya. Organization located in Valls, Catalunya. The CCCC was established in 1989 to promote and safeguard the treasured Catalon traditions of building human towers. The groups that build human towers ar ...
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The 'cobla' is the name of the woodwind band that plays for the sardana dances. Sardanes is a traditional dance of Catalonia. So whereever you see Sardanes dancing, they will be accompanied by a cobla woodwind band. Article about origins of the cobla ...
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Correfoc means 'firerun' in Catalan. The correfoc is a very popular Catalan tradition always seen at neighbourhood fiestas. Basically it is people in devil costumes dancing holding sticks of firecrackers. Fire runs are organised by "colles de diables ...
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A blog called Wirdhem in Vilanova has put together a great list with Catalan names and English explanations of many of the traditions that you can see at many festa major celebrations and other tradition festival in Barcelona and Catalunya.Pictures C ...
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Catalan traditions - grallers - piper. The Gralla is a piped woodwind instrument played in small groups by 'grallers' during processions and parades in Catalan traditional fiestas and events.Catalan traditions at Festa de Gracia
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La Senyera - Catalonia flag. La Senyera is the name of the Catalan flag. It means "signal flag" in the Catalan language. The design is four stripes on a golden background from the coat of arms of the Crown of Aragon. You will see many Cata ...
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Trabucaires are groups of Catalan 'bandits' in traditional costumes carrying a blunderbuss gun which is called "un trabuc" in Catalan. Trabucaires take part in Catalan festivals and shoot their blunderbuss gun in the air in parades but using blanks. ...
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