Gavà Asparagus Festival

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First celebrated in 1932, the annual Gavà asparagus festival nowadays receives over 30,000 visitors keen to try the best vegetables of the season. It's one of Spain's oldest ongoing culinary fairs—interrupted only because of the Spanish Civil War—and this year Gavà celebrates its 66th edition. What began as a competition for local farmers has blossomed into two and a half days of celebrating the town's agricultural and culinary heritage with a full program of activities.

In addition to proud displays of the area's splendid spring harvest the weekend is filled with cooking demos, workshops, children's activities, live music, a castellera (human castle building), a cercavila (treasure hunt), ball de bastons (traditional Catalan dance with wooden batons) and, of course, plenty of food.

Friday April 26

• 17:30 - Home Commercial and Artisan Show. Carrer de Sant Pere and Avinguda Diagonal.
• 17:30-18:30 - Workshop: From the kitchen to the paper. Basketball court on Avinguda Diagonal.
• 19:00 - Dance show. Plaça de Jaume Balmes.
• 19:30 - Music with DJ La Frizz. GastroGavà. Plaça de Jaume Balmes.

Saturday, April 27

• 11:30 - Agricultural Exhibition opens. Francesc Macià Square.
• 9.30-14:00 - 7th Baix Llobregat Promotion Trophy-Asparagus Fair Grand Prix.
• Club Atletisme Gavà. Estadi Municipal la Bòbila.
• 11:00-12:00 - Culinary storytelling. In the basketball court of Avinguda Diagonal.
• 11:00-14:00 - Come and play with VAN DE BÓLIT! Giant wooden games at Plaça de Jaume Balmes.
• 12:00-13:00 - Visit the fair with music from the Sidral Brass Band. Start at Francesc Macià Square, Avinguda Diagonal and Plaça de Jaume Balmes.
• 13:00 - Recognition for the best asparagus of 2019. Plaza de Jaume Balmes.
• 16:00-21:00 9th edition of the Tournament of Carcassonne (board game). Carrer de Sant Pere, in front of the Josep Soler Vidal Library.
• 18:00-19:00 - Dance of the gegants and gegantons (giants) Plaça de Jaume Balmes.
• 19:00-20:00 Four hands cooking demo. GastroGavà. Plaça de Jaume Balmes.
• 21:00-22:00 Concert with the Gavà Music Workshop. Plaça de Jaume Balmes.
• 22:00-24:00 La Golden Beat concert. Plaça de Jaume Balmes.

Sunday April 28

• 9:30-13:30 - 14th annual cava awards. Plaça de Jaume Balmes.
• 9:00 - Classic car rally and exhibition, meeting point in Plaça de Jaume Balmes with Carrer de Martí l'Humà.
• 11:30 - Classic car tour from Gavà Center to Gavà Mar.
• 13:00-14:00 - Classic car exhibition at Plaça de Jaume Balmes with Carrer de Martí l'Humà.
• 10:30-14:30 Throughout the morning you can visit the Puppet Punxetes, the mascot of the Baix Llobregat!
• 11:00-12:30 - Musical parade with the Harpo's Band! Start in Plaça de Jaume Balmes until Plaça Francesc Macià.
• 11:00-14:00 - Come and play with VAN DE BÓLIT! Giant wooden games at Carrer de Sant Pere, in front of the Josep Soler Vidal Library.
• 12:00-13:00 - Four hands cooking demo. GastroGavà. Plaça de Jaume Balmes.
• 12:00-13:30 - Workshop: Letters to the kitchen. Basketball court on Avinguda Diagonal.
• 11:30-13:00 - Castellers! Plaça de Jaume Balmes.
• 13:00-16:00 - Jon & Monique DJs. GastroGavà. Plaça de Jaume Balmes.
• 17:30-18:30 - Ball de bastons and cercavila. Begins in Plaça de Jaume Balmes.
• 18:00 - Four hands cooking demo. GastroGavà. Plaça de Jaume Balmes.

More info here.