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Every year in September Barcelona holds its largest street party, the “Barcelona La Mercè Festival”.

La Mercè 2011 will take place from 22nd September until Sunday 25th September.
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visitors can taste a huge variety of wines as well as gastronomical

La Merce is a festival held in honour of Mare de Deu de la Mercè, the Patron Saint of Barcelona. The festival, which officially first took place in 1902, bids goodbye to the summer with a bang and welcomes in
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the autumn. In 2011 there will be different activities like fire run, human towers and giants.

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