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useless-catalanfacts · 10 months

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Sant Joan (Saint John’s Day or Midsummer Day) is celebrated on the night of the 23rd of June and on the 24th of June. It’s the shortest night of the year.

It’s very widely celebrated in all the Catalan-speaking countries (Northern Catalonia, Catalonia, Andorra, la Franja, the Valencian Country, the Balearic Islands and l’Alguer) to the point that it’s considered the national day of the Catalan Countries.

The tradition is to celebrate the night of Saint John’s Eve (in Catalan: la revetlla de Sant Joan) by staying up all night with friends, throwing firecrackers and making bonfires. People eat coca de Sant Joan (a sweet flatbread like in the photo above) and coca de llardons (lard flatbread) and drink cava (Catalan champagne). On the day of Sant Joan, families have a big lunch together.

In addition to this, some areas also add their own local traditions, which often also have to do with fire. The most famous ones are the Sant Joan festivities in Ciutadella (Menorca) and the falles in the Pyrenees (Catalonia and Andorra).

Fire is a very important element in Catalan festivities. It’s believed to come from pre-Christian rituals, where fire is understood as a purifying element and at the same a way to worship or homage the sun, given that Sant Joan is the summer solstice.

According to Catalan legends, the night of Sant Joan is the most magical moment of the year. On that night, you are likely to find magical beings such as follets and fairies who might try to play tricks on you, so be careful!

There are also many superstitions for this night, the most famous of which is that jumping over the bonfire will give you good luck for the next year or will make your wishes come true.

Other superstitions have to do with water. Catalan legends say that all water sources are magical on Saint John’s Night. Many people go bathe in the sea, and some people jump over 9 waves with their backs turned towards the coast, because old beliefs say it brings happiness for the year.

Photos: coca de Sant Joan from Vilaweb, a bonfire in Barcelona from Descobrir.cat, jumping over a bonfire and bathing on Sant Joan’s Eve from 7televalencia.

#sant joan #tradicions #midsummer #saint john's day #cultures #culture #fire #food #flatbread #cake #sweet #celebrations #holidays #summer #catalonia #valencian country #balearic islands

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shalinirani · 24 days

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SA True Story | नशे की लत से है परेशान, जरूर देखें | Phoolchand Kamali, ...

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amateurchefstuff · 2 months

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Coca de sant Joan

Ingredients: 500 grs de farina 7 grs de sal 100 grs de sucre 50 grs de mantega 100 grs de llevat fresc 1 ou 250 grs de llet sencera (menys el pes de l’ou) 1 llimona 1 ou per pintar 2 racions de crema pastissera Preparació: Primer pesem l’ou, i el seu pes el restem de la quantitat de llet. Desfem el llevat a la llet i hi afegim el sucre, la pell de la llimona ratllada, la farina i la sal.…

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kaoru-in-china · 8 months

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Sant Joan, Andorra la Vella, June 2023

#andorra #sant joan #travel #photo

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aroaceofthesea · 10 months

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I love the smell of firecrackers

#sant joan #when i was a kid we used to celebrate it in a kinda isolated house #and then we kept celebrating it on our own wuth the same ppl until like a couple years ago #when we started doing it at home with some other friends but still pretty isolated #i thinkbi had never been outside at 22-23 in a crowded place #and i fucking love it the sounds are kinda relaxing? idk i like them and the smell is fucking awesome #rip to the ppl that dont like sant joan but im different #also rip to all you losers that dont have sant joan #mine

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nonperfect · 10 months

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Hola, verano.

Ya ha empezado el verano astronómico. El verano meteorológico, ya hace semanas que nos acompaña. Colegios, institutos y universidades también en modo verano. Las rebajas de verano. Los festivales de verano. Aunque hay gente, en muchos lugares, que no da la bienvenida oficial al verano, hasta esta noche, la noche de San Juan. Me incluyo en ese grupo. Estoy preparada para iniciar mi ciclo…

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#fiesta #Party #Revetlla #san Juan #Sant Joan #Verano #Verbena

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12endigital · 1 year

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Nueva rotonda en la avenida Miguel Hernández de Sant Joan d’Alacant

La rotonda, que da acceso a la zona comercial y a la calle del Mar, se ha llevado a cabo durante las fiestas y está en funcionamiento desde principios de semana. Ha sido ejecutada dentro de los trabajos de urbanización del sector Sup – 11 Avenida Benidorm. Durante la mañana de este martes la concejala de urbanismo, Eva Delgado, la Ingeniera municipal y técnicos de la empresa urbanizadora Becsa…

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#obras #Rotonda #Sant Joan

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le-journal-catalan · 2 years

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Ahir, revetlla de Sant Joan, més de 50 voluntaris van fer arribar La Flama del Canigó a diferents poblacions de la Cerdanya

Ahir, revetlla de Sant Joan, més de 50 voluntaris van fer arribar La Flama del Canigó a diferents poblacions de la Cerdanya. Seguint una petita caravana, els Equips de Foc formats per excursionistes, ciclistes, grallers i altres voluntaris, han recorregut la Cerdanya de Montlluís a Martinet per fer-la arribar a 40 municipis. Val a dir que d’aquests, 23 s’han incorporat de nou i han estat…

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#Cerdagne #Eliseu Climent #feu #La Flama del Canigó #Saint Jean #Sant Joan

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canalmenorca · 2 years

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SANT JOAN 2022!

Viñeta: SANT JOAN 2022! #comics #Comic #WebComic #Sketch #tebeos #drawing #DigitalArt #art #Dibujos #comicartwork #tirascomicas #viñetas #HumorGrafico #illustration #Historieta #dibujo #SantJoan #BonesFestes #CaixerSenyor #Ciutadella #Seny

(© Julia) Vuelve SANT JOAN en todo su esplendor…a la vieja, pero vieja usanza. …petado de gente…con la polémica de la participación de las mujeres, con decisiones arbitrarias del Caixer Senyor d’enguany, Borja Saura..sin el refuerzo policial ni sanitario requerido en el Plan Director de Seguridad de Sant Joan…vamos, el Sant Joan de siempre! BONES FESTES…amb seny!! (© Julia) El rincón de…

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docpiplup · 1 month

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LA ABADESA (2024)

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In the 9th century, Emma of Barcelona (c. 880-942), a 17-year-old girl, is named abbess in order to repopulate and Christianize border territories in 897. Upon arriving at the abbey, she will have to overcome the mistrust aroused by a woman determined to fulfill her mission, which will lead her to confront nobles, like her brother Count Guifré II Borrel of Barcelona (874-911), peasants and the nuns themselves. Despite everything, Emma will show that it is possible to challenge established power structures. Although she will pay a high price to get it...

Emma is willing to carry out the commission of her deceased noble father, Count Guifré I of Barcelona, Guifré el Pilós (840-897), founder of the House of Barcelona: convert the abbey that he founded in 885, the Monastery of Sant Joan de les Abadesses, for which she is now responsible into the engine of change and transformation of a society that comes down. She must help with all her resources to help the lands that are emptied due to hunger caused by border wars, which in turn are a consequence of the ambitions of the feudal lords of the area.

Emma acquired small or large properties with which the monastery came to have a territory equivalent to that of a county. Her sovereignty was also similar to that of a countess: by concession from her father, her domains were exempt from all interference from the neighboring counts, whom she knew how to oppose with resistance.

On cinemas: Friday 22 March

Filming began in January 2023 at the Loarre Castle, and included scenes filmed at the Turó de la Seu Vella, until concluding at the end of February 2023.

Main cast

Emma of Barcelona - Daniela Brown

Eloisa - Blanca Romero

Guifré II Borrel of Barcelona - Carlos Cuevas

Eduard - Ernest Villegas

Odón - Oriol Genís

Bishop Gotmar of Vic– Joaquín Notario

Clara-Berta Sánchez Bajona

Melisenda - Anäel Snoek

Elvira- Olivia Auclair

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Script and direction: Antonio Chavarrías

Produced by: Antonio Chavarrías, Jose María Morales, Miguel Morales, Mónica Lozano

Photography direction: Julian Elizalde

Editing: Clara Martínez Malagelada

Music: Ivan Georgiev

Casting: Irene Roqué, Carla Bisart, Sara Bisart, Elena Gómez Zarzuca and Doriane Flamand

Direct sound: Elsa Ruhlmann

Sound editing: Corinne Dubein

Blends: Emmanuel de Boissieu

Art direction: Irene Montcada

Costumes: Catherine Marchand and Pau Aulí

VFX: Natacha Brohan

Assistant director: Falele Ygueravide

Production direction: Anna Boneta

Executive producers: Alba Bosch-Durán, Flavia Biurrun and Jennifer Ritter

Co-producer: Huber Toint, Alex Verbaere, David Claikens, Samuel Feller

Production of Oberon Media, Wanda Films, Icono 2020, Saga Film, RTVE and TV3.

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(Based on a true story/ Based on a true woman)

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anticapitalistclown · 3 days

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today is 23rd of April, Happy Sant Jordi my moots

here's a rose for you 🌹

#sant jordi #it's one of my fave festivities #sant jordi and sant joan are just superior

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useless-catalanfacts · 10 months

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Bona diada dels Països Catalans!

Sant Joan és una de les poques festes (de fet, l'única que no és una celebració religiosa) que se celebra de forma conjunta arreu dels Països Catalans: des de la Flama del Canigó a la Catalunya Nord, a les fogueres d'Alacant, les festes amb cavalls de Ciutadella i la crema de bujots a Sant Lluís a Menorca, el ball de Sant Joan Pelós a diverses localitats de Mallorca, les baixades de falles al Pirineu i Andorra i totes les revetlles populars celebrades arreu de Catalunya, el País Valencià i la Franja.

És una festa lligada al foc i a l'aigua, que simbolitza el final de la sega dels camps ("Pel juny, la falç al puny") i la celebració del solstici d'estiu. Des de la dècada del 1980, se celebra també com a Festa Nacional dels Països Catalans, amb el foc i la llengua com a elements centrals que ens agermanen, i com a símbol de resistència del poble català, que no s'ha deixat vèncer pels segles de repressió i persecució dels estats espanyol i francès.

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Happy Day of the Catalan Countries!

Sant Joan (Midsummer, June 24th) is one of the few holidays (in fact, the only one that isn't a religious feast) that is celebrated together all around the Catalan Countries: from the Canigó Flame in Northern Catalonia, to the Alacant bonfires, the horse festivities of Ciutadella and the burning of Bujots in Sant Lluís in Menorca, the Sant Joan Pelós dance in various towns of Mallorca, the falles in the Pyrenees and Andorra, and all the eve parties and festivals celebrated all around Catalonia, the Valencian Country and la Franja.

It's a holiday linked to fire and water, and which symbolizes the ending of the fields' reaping season that used to happen during all of June (we have the saying "In June, the sickle in your fist") and the celebration of the summer solstice. Since the 1980s, it's also celebrated as the National Holiday of the Catalan Countries, with fire and language as the central elements that unites us, and as a symbol of resistance of the Catalan people, who has not given in to the centuries of oppression and persecution from the Spanish and French states.

#diada nacional dels països catalans #diada dels països catalans #sant joan #països catalans #ppcc #coses de la terra #català #catalan #pays catalan

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shalinirani · 1 month

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#BhandaraInvitationToTheWorld

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