2025

This is one of the most keenly anticipated and widely celebrated Catalan public holidays. According to the traditional tale, Sant Jordi (Saint George) killed the dragon that used to live in Montblanc where it terrorized the local population, thus saving the king's daughter from certain death. Legend has it that a beautiful rose bush sprang up in the spot where the dragon's blood was spilled. From the 18th century onward, the Sant Jordi festival became widely identified as a Catalan 'fiesta' which these days arouses great popular, civic and cultural passion. On Sant Jordi's Day, lovers exchange a rose and a book and every town and city in Catalonia is filled with stalls set up to sell both.

Books and Roses booths in the city:

Ciutat Vella: la Rambla and passeig de Lluís Companys.
L'Eixample: plaça de Catalunya, plaça de la Universitat, rambla de Catalunya, passeig de Gràcia and passeig de Sant Joan.
Sants-Montjuïc: rambla de Sants.
Les Corts: avinguda de la Diagonal (Joan Güell and de Pau Romeva).
Sarrià - Sant Gervasi: plaça de Sarrià.
Gràcia: carrer Gran de Gràcia (pla de Nicolás Salmerón and carrer d'Astúries) and plaça de la Vila de Gràcia.
Horta-Guinardó: plaça d'Eivissa.
Nou Barris: marquesina de la via Júlia and plaça del Virrei Amat.
Sant Andreu: places d'Orfila and Comerç, and carrer del Segre.
Sant Martí: rambla del Poblenou, carrers del Cabanyal and Sèquia Comtal, places del Mercat and Font i Sagué and espai de la Biblioteca Gabriel García Márquez.