Andorra la Vella Festa major: Friday 2nd – Monday, 5th August, 2019, Andorra (Pyrenees)
All free unless otherwise stated.
(Below, the following initials indicate different venues: HC = Historic Centre PP = Plaça del Poble, PG = Plaça Guillemó, PLR = Plaça de la Rotonda, AM = Av. de Meritxell, PC = Parc Central).
FRIDAY: 10h – 13h & 15h – 19.30h Water Party. PC 18.30h Foam Party. PC Children’s activities offered by the Consell d’Infants Andorra la Vella, 2018 – 2019 in the PC. 18.45h: Great peal of bells. 19h: Inauguracion of the Festa Major. Reading of the speech by the Confraria d’Escudellaires d’Andorra la Vella and the premier of the Dance of the Speech with the folk dance group the Esbart.
Dans aire d’Andorra la Vella in the Plaça Princep Benlloc. 19h – 23h: Market of the Festa Major: Artesan crafts, music, gastronomy & animation in the HC. 19h: Open Beach Volleyball 3×3. (Inscriptions: from 18.15h –18.45h at the beach volleyball courts) in PC. 23h: Dance in the Plaça, with the orchestra, Banda Sonora, in the PP. . 23h: Concerts for the Festa Major: Gertrudis + Pepet & Marieta (Fusion/ Rumba/Ska) in the PG.
SATURDAY: 8h – 12.30h & 15h – 19.30h. 2nd Open Festa Major ‘catch and release’ fly fishing competition in the Grand Valira River. Information & inscriptions: www.pescadorsandorra.com. 9h – 21h Shooting Trophy. Information and inscriptions [email protected] or Tel 860972.
10h – 18 h: 9th Table Tennis Tournament in the covered pavilion of the Communal Stadium.
Information & inscriptions free half an hour before the start [email protected].
11h – 23h Market of the Festa Major: Artesan crafts, music, gastronomy & animation in the HC.
12h Sardana with the traditional instruments of the Catalan Orchestra Jovenivola d’Agramunt in the PP.
13h: Ball of the Mediaeval Giants of Andorra la Vella & Sant Pol de Mar followed by Mediaeval Dances by the folkdance group the Esbart Dansaire d’Andorra la Vella in the PG.
16h – 21h: Children’s party of games and sports in the PC.
17h: Human Castling Exhibition by the Colla Joves Xiquets de Valls accompanied by the Castellers de la Vila de Gràcia and the Castellers d’Andorra in the Plaça Princep Benlloc.
18h Sardanes with the traditional Catalan Orchestra and instruments of Cobla Jovenivola d’Agramunt in the PP. 18h Travelling entertainment through the streets of the Historic Centre with the folk dance group Esbart Dansaire HC.
18.30h: Parade of Giants (Andorra la Vella, Sant Pol de Mar, Ametlla de Merola, Calella) leaving from Plaça Princep Benlloc and ending at the PLR. 19h First Festa Major Orienteering event, starting by categories – individuals, pairs & families in front of the Comú of Andorra la Vella. Urban Orientation Race through the old quarter. Inscriptions from 16h – 19h in front of the Comú or Online at: www.topcrono.net until 1st August at 23:59h.
22.30h: Vaya circo!, a spectacular by the Cia. Kanbahiota circus in the PP. 24h Concerts of the Festa Major: Els Catarres (Pop Folk) + Pachawa Sound (World Sound).
SUNDAY: 8h – 12.30h & 15h – 19.30h. 2nd Open Festa Major, ‘catch and release’, fly fishing competition in the Grand Valira River. Information & inscriptions: www.pescadorsandorra.com. 9h – 14h Shooting Trophy. Information and inscriptions [email protected], www.andorratir.org or Tel 860972.
11h – 23h Market of the Festa Major: Artesan crafts, music, gastronomy & animation in the HC. 12h: Solemn Mass accompanied by the orchestra La Principal de la Bisbal in the church of Sant Esteve. 13h Dance of the Contrapàs of Andorra la Vella, Dance of the Capgrossos (big heads) and the Giants in the PP. 16h 15th Botifarra Campionship (card game) at La Llacuna Cultural Centre. 16h – 21h: Children’s party of games and sports in the PC. 16.30h: Coffee, glass & puro. Afternoon dance with the
Orquestra Versio Original in the PP. 18h: Camins, a spectacle of acrobatics with the Cia. Riguel in the PLR. 18h Travelling entertainment through the streets of the Historic Centre with the folk dance group Esbart Dansaire HC. 18.30h: La Ballarusca, a workshop of traditional dances of the Pyrenees, given by the Esbart Dansaire d’Andorra la Vella in the Placeta Monjó. 19h: Sardanes with the cobla La Principal de la Bisbal in the PP. 22.30h Yee-haw! A circus spectacular and music with the Cia. Infoncundibles. PP. 23h Grand night dance with La Principal de la Bisbal + DeNoche (cover versions) in the PG.
