{"id":65458,"date":"2016-04-12T13:07:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T11:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/?p=65458"},"modified":"2018-02-15T17:50:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T16:50:12","slug":"santa-eulalias-festival-celebrating-the-bravery-of-a-unique-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/santa-eulalias-festival-celebrating-the-bravery-of-a-unique-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Eulalia’s Festival, Celebrating the bravery of a unique child"},"content":{"rendered":"

The story of Eulalia<\/strong> dates back to ancient days of Christian persecution in Barcelona, during the era of Roman emperor\u00a0Diocletian. Eulalia<\/strong> was a young Christian that lived in the\u00a0countryside\u00a0of Barcelona which is now called Sarri\u00e0. Eulalia<\/strong> was a\u00a0strong human rights activist who refused to\u00a0recant\u00a0her faith in Christianity, speaking out against the dictatorship of emperor\u00a0Diocletian. For this reason, she was subjected to severe torture by the Roman army. As a result of the torture she endured, Eulalia<\/strong> died on February 12th<\/sup>, 303.<\/p>\n

\"santa<\/a>Santa Eulalia’s Festival<\/strong> takes celebrates the life of this brave young girl and her incredible actions. During the festival, an important Catalan tradition of raising the flag, \u201cPeno de Santa Eulalia\u201d, occurs. Peno de Santa Eulalia is the banner of Santa\u00a0Eulalia\u00a0<\/strong>is one the city’s main symbols.<\/p>\n

Kids particularly enjoy\u00a0Santa Eulalia’s Festival<\/strong> because several games and activities like puppet shows, storytelling, concerts and famly workshops take place all through the city, many of them at Ciutat Vella,\u00a0where Eulalia<\/strong> lived. The festival usually features parades with\u00a0gegants<\/a><\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0and other traditional Catalan activities like\u00a0castellets<\/a><\/em>,<\/strong>\u00a0sardanas,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>and\u00a0correfocs<\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If you’re\u00a0an expat\u00a0currently living in Barcelona, and not so much aware of the historical significance of Santa Eulalia<\/strong> and the flag, then it might\u00a0behoove\u00a0you to\u00a0stop by your nearest bookstore<\/strong> and get a few facts.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the bookstores where you can find books in English in Barcelona:<\/p>\n

Fnac<\/b><\/p>\n

Diagonal Mar Centro Comercial – Avenida Diagonal, 3<\/p>\n

El Triangle Centro Comercial – Pla\u00e7a Catalunya, 4<\/p>\n

Centre Comercial Arenas – Gran Via de Les Corts Catalanes<\/p>\n

Casa del Llibre<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Santa<\/a><\/strong>Passeig de Gr\u00e0cia, 62.<\/p>\n

Rambla de Catalunya, 37.<\/p>\n

La Maquinista Centro Comercial – Calle Potos\u00ed, 2.<\/p>\n

Hibernian Books<\/strong><\/p>\n

Calle Montseny, 17.<\/p>\n

Come In<\/strong><\/p>\n

Carrer de Balmes, 219-Bis.<\/p>\n

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The story of Eulalia dates back to ancient days of Christian persecution in Barcelona, during the era of Roman emperor\u00a0Diocletian. Eulalia was a young Christian that lived in the\u00a0countryside\u00a0of Barcelona which is now called Sarri\u00e0. Eulalia was a\u00a0strong human rights activist who refused to\u00a0recant\u00a0her faith in Christianity, speaking out against the dictatorship of emperor\u00a0Diocletian. For […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":65903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4348],"tags":[3253,1206,3129,710],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65458"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94966,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65458\/revisions\/94966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shbarcelona.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}