The City Festival in capital letters, Santa Tecla is a burst of joy, music and colour that courses through the city for ten straight days. It blends all the traditional elements of the Seguici Popular with an endless variety of dances, human towers, sparkthrowing night-time parades, mythological beasts, medieval treats and “Spoken Dances” (verse re-enactments of the struggle between good and evil) conserved or recovered throughout Catalonia. It has been officially declared a Festival of Tourism Interest, a Traditional Festival of National Interest, a Festival of National Heritage Interest and has been voted the best city festival in Catalonia.
Pic: © Manel R. Granell / Tarragona
