Els Catarres, Doctor Prats, and Miki Núñez to perform at Girona’s Sant Narcís festival

Girona’s Sant Narcís festival will be back in full swing with no pandemic restrictions and around 200 activities, including an exhibition featuring more than 150 works from the Santos Torroella art fund, from October 28 to November 6. 

A parade of giant puppets and dance performances will open the festival, which will close a week and a half later with a fireworks display. Other traditional celebrations are planned this year including ‘correfocs’ fire runs.

The concerts will take place mainly in two areas. Artists such as Skatalà, Els Catarres, Doctor Prats and Miki Nuñez will be performing at La Copa stage, while La Ludwig Band, Ken Ishi, Xarim Aresté, Selvatana, Maravella and more are set for Migdia Park.  

"We are happy to recover the pre-pandemic activities 100%," the city's vice-mayor Quim Ayats said. 

Festival organizer, Natxo Morera de la Vall, said that families' preferences and age groups were taken into account when deciding on the schedules. "Els Catarres will be the first one to play because the Catalan band attracts young people," he added. 

The festival will be expanded to other areas of the city this year, such as Passeig de Francina Boris and Codina, where an homage to Girona’s radio anchor, Francina Boris i Codina, will be held on October 30. 

For families, there will be a temporary amusement park for children on November 1st in Plaça de Pere Calders and musical performances.

"We will have a city full of joy. I want to thank the neighborhood associations and the entities for their collaboration in the events," councilor Maria Àngels Cedacers said. 

Santos Torroella art fund

The temporary exhibition of the Santos Torroella art fund at the Girona Art Museum is one of the main highlights of the festival's cultural program.  

"We felt obliged to make this available to the public; therefore, the least we could do was this exhibition," said Quim Ayats.

The exhibition will give prominence to the fund’s documentary heritage, tracing the avant-garde movement from the beginning of the 20th century until the 1960s. Works by Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Francis Picabia will dialogue with photographs from the personal archive of Santos Torroella, the art critic, historian, and poet.