Festa Major

As the popular saying goes, Per Sant Joan, a Olesa la fan (“For Saint John, in Olesa they celebrate”). Thus, the municipality’s biggest festival, the Festa Major, takes places on the days around June 24, the feast day of Saint John the Baptist. The street is transformed into a place for citizens and visitors to the comarca to come together and celebrate. These are days when a wide range of activities for all ages and tastes are organized jointly by Olesa’s Municipal Council and its local associations.

Days of revelry and culture, of fire and desire, of light and color. Theater, sardanas, castellers, dances, concerts, fine food, children’s shows, sporting activities, giants, competitions... These are just a few of the things on offer during the municipality’s biggest festival of the year. The town center is alight with stalls that link together the different spaces where the events take place.

Fire is present on the day of the open-air ceremony of the Canigou Flame and the lighting of the bonfire by the two Olesan “colles de diables” (“devil groups”). At the end of the festival, the streets fill up with little lanterns carrying the wishes and dreams of the people.