Around 24 September, once again Barcelona will celebrate its Annual Festival. The last blast of summer before the autumn starts, La Mercè is the festival of festivals, where, in just a few days there are hundreds of activities like these:

• Barcelona Acció Musical (Barcelona Musical Action): to hear new sounds
• Barcelona Street Arts: artists performing amongst the public
• La Festival of Tradition: human castles, bigheads, giants and all the festive beasts of the city, accompanied by guests of the Mediterranean
• Festival of the Sky: acrobatic meeting of jets, balloons, ultra lights, etc
• The Fire Festival: all kinds of sparks from the musical fireworks to the Fire Run…

With a long etcetera of more than 500 activities to everyone’s taste. La Mercè is the festival of a thousand faces.