May: Sant Ponç and festival season ignition
May opens festival season and brings the year's most fragrant festival: the Sant Ponç market, when Carrer Hospital fills with herbs, honey and candied fruit.
Sant Ponç market, May 11
Carrer Hospital becomes a giant herbalist's: medicinal herbs, honey, rosemary candies and grandmothers' remedies. A medieval tradition surviving with the same old stalls.
Primavera Sound, late May
The festival that opens the big season: days of international music at the Fòrum with the sea behind. Tickets sell out months ahead — the whole city sounds of festival that week.
The April Fair
The Andalusian community's fair, with casetas, polka-dot dresses and rebujito: floating dates between April and May at the Fòrum, and one of the calendar's happiest parties.