Scroll down, see what activities might suit your family’s interest and have a great holiday. Balance a museum morning with a fun afternoon activity like beach and ice cream (great bribes for good morning behaviour). One big word of advice: don’t try to cram too much in as your offspring will get grumpy, tired and rebel. Is Barcelona child-friendly? The answer is YES! And here is the most complete list of things to do with kids in Barcelona that you will find. Nothing could be worse than spending all that money and having your children moaning about how boring everything is!Īs an experienced family guide and parent living in Barcelona, I am here to make your life a little easier. On a city visit, you want to balance culture, museums and highlights with a good peppering of fun and interest for the little ones. Visiting Barcelona with kids? Any parent (including myself) must plan a holiday very differently from those kids and carefree visitors. 20- Giants Museum (La Casa dels Entremesos).12- Museu Blau (Natural History Museum).7- Kids & Family Gothic Quarter Walking Tour.You can find coca de Sant Joan in bakeries all over Barcelona, but we’ve rounded up a few of our favorites (see Map). James, July 25), and in fact, for every special day – diada in Catalan – in the event that you don’t make it to pastry shops and bakeries by June 23.
John’s Eve, but also for the feasts of Sant Pere (St. Renowned food writer Vázquez Montalban asserted that these cocas are a must not only for St. According to him, the coca must be twice as long as it is wide. In 1924, Catalan chef Ignasi Domenech was the first to publish a recipe for coca de Sant Joan. Other variations might call for custard, marzipan, puff pastry or llardons (pork cracklings), or perhaps whipped cream or cabello de angel (angel’s hair), a type of pumpkin conserve. The most characteristic coca for this holiday is flavored with anise and orange blossom water and decorated with candied fruit, chopped almonds and Mediterranean pine nuts (an exquisite version can be found at the small pastry shop Fábrega). Similar to brioche, this long, flat sweet bread is found on every Catalan dinner table with cava or sweet wine on this night – as well as lunch the next day. The main culinary distinction of the Revetlla de Sant Joan, though, is coca de Sant Joan, a sweet pastry that is a modern relative of the round cakes prepared by ancient Romans for these solstice celebrations. (Some villages, such as Santa Coloma de Farners, host a ratafía festival the first week of November.) After 40 days of maceration in sol i serena (“sun and shadow”), which takes us into fall, the ratafia is ready. In Catalonia, these summer herbs and fruits – like green walnuts – are used to make the popular liquor ratafia.Īfter all the ingredients are collected – people begin preparing this liquor any time in June or early July – they are placed in a large bottle with aiguardent, a distilled spirit. In fact, in Spanish, the name of all these nocturnal celebrations and dances is verbena, just like the aromatic plant. But this is also a time for gathering medicinal herbs, for this special time of year purportedly intensifies the plants’ healing and beneficial properties. John’s Eve, the Christian adaptation of ancient pagan celebrations of the summer solstice. Bonfires, firecrackers and fireworks light up the night, and people while away the hours drinking, eating and dancing in public squares and beaches or at parties.įire, noisemaking and dancing are the main ingredients of St.
The arrival of the flame the next day signals the start of the Revetlla de Sant Joan (St. All through the night, hundreds of volunteer torchbearers carry the flame to towns and villages throughout the four provinces of Catalonia. On the night of June 22, a fire is lit at the top of Canigó mountain in the Pyrenees.
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