How the Sarrià Festival works
It is organised by the Comissió de Festes del Roser de Sarrià, a volunteer association, together with dozens of local groups, schools and streets. The heart of it is Plaça de Sarrià, in front of the church, and the adjoining Plaça del Consell de la Vila; Plaça de Sant Vicenç is a few minutes down Carrer Major. Almost everything is free and outdoors, and plans for little ones are concentrated on weekend mornings and some afternoons from 5 pm.
🎪 Throughout the festival, the Vicençs and Rosers teams compete in the 13th Batalla per Sarrià: duck races, wheel throwing, musical chairs and a final treasure hunt. To take part you need the official T-shirt, sold at the Josefa Cortinas and El Trèbol haberdasheries, at the festival bar and at the events themselves.
See everything on at Plaça del Consell de la VilaSaturday the 3rd, the big family day
At 10 am there is hot chocolate for the Blauet’s 25th birthday in Plaça del Consell de la Vila, and at the same time the MOVI group leaves Plaça de Sarrià on the playful Follets de Collserola route to Plaça de Sant Vicenç. Workshops run all morning: gardening with ASSÍS in Plaça de Sarrià (10 am to 2 pm), printmaking at the Traç school (11 am), the Espai d’Aigua water activities for ages 3 to 12 on Carrer Menor de Sarrià (11 am to 1.30 pm) and Auxilia’s inclusive activity, with boccia and a wheelchair circuit (11 am). The Tren de l’Oreneta miniature railway holds an open day from 10.30 am to 1.30 pm, at 12 noon there is storytelling in the Casa Orlandai courtyard and at 12.30 pm, magic with Mag Ferbuch in Plaça de Sant Vicenç. In the afternoon, the festival parade with the schools (5 pm), the Esplai Sant Vicenç hot chocolate (5 pm) and the castells workshop (7 pm).
🎪 At 11.30 am the railway giants Trenot and Catenària, with the Blauet, set off from Plaça del Consell de la Vila towards the Reina Elisenda FGC station, which turns 50.
See the Espai d’Aigua (ages 3 to 12)Sunday 4 to Monday 12: giants, castells and cinema
On Sunday the 4th the 32nd Trobada Gegantera giants gathering fills Plaça del Consell de la Vila from 10 am to 2 pm, the Hort de la Veïnal community garden invites families to plant seedlings at 11 am and, at 5.30 pm, Fes-te els Balcons turns balconies into stages (best from age 6). On weekdays there is football training for children with CP Sarrià on Tuesday the 6th and the “Una planta, una vida” activity on Thursday the 8th, both at 5.30 pm in Plaça de Sarrià; there are no children’s plans on Monday the 5th or Wednesday the 7th. On Saturday the 10th, the Diablets fire workshop (11 am), magic with Mag Selvin (5 pm), an introduction to role-playing games at the Sarrià civic centre for ages 10 and up (4.30 pm) and the walking human pillar up Carrer Major (6 pm). Sunday the 11th brings the castells day at 11.15 am, and Monday the 12th, a public holiday, an open-air screening of “Zootopia 2” at 7 pm.
🎪 The castells day marks 150 years since the first documented reference to human towers in Sarrià (1876), with the Castellers de Barcelona and the Matossers de Molins de Rei as guests.
See the open-air cinema on Monday the 12thFour hot chocolates
The programme lists four: the Blauet’s 25th birthday one (Saturday the 3rd, 10 am, Plaça del Consell de la Vila), the Esplai Sant Vicenç “Xocogresca” (Saturday the 3rd, 5 pm, same square), Xarcuteries Margarit’s with ladyfinger biscuits (Friday the 9th, 5.30 pm, Plaça Josep Obiols) and the charity hot chocolate by the ASSÍS shelter (Saturday the 10th, 10 am to 1 pm, Plaça de Sarrià).
See the ASSÍS charity hot chocolateThe funfair
The Firaires de Sarrià set up the funfair from 2 to 18 October at Porta de Sarrià and Plaça Cirici Pellicer (Caputxins de Sarrià). It opens on weekdays from 5 to 8 pm, on Saturdays from 11 am to 2 pm and 5 pm to midnight, and on Sundays from 11 am to 2 pm and 5 to 10 pm; on the festival Fridays, the 2nd and 9th, until midnight. You pay per ride; the programme does not publish prices.
See the funfairCorrefoc: there is no children’s one
This year the programme has no children’s correfoc. The big fire run, “Sarrià en flames”, is on Saturday the 10th: the drummers set off up Carrer Major from Plaça de Sant Vicenç at 7.30 pm, the show and verses start at 8.30 pm, the correfoc at 9.15 pm and the finale with a ceiling of fire at 10.15 pm. For little ones to experience it from the inside, that same Saturday from 11 am to 1 pm the Diablets de Sarrià run the “Vols ser un petit diable?” workshop in Plaça del Consell de la Vila, where children can light a firework with prior authorisation.
🎪 The official festival neckerchief is 100% cotton and suitable for the correfoc: it costs €2.50 in advance (€3 at the bar) and is sold at the Josefa Cortinas and El Trèbol haberdasheries, Caramelia, Casa Orlandai and the Associació Veïnal.
See the Diablets workshopGetting around the Sarrià Festival with kids
The heart of the festival is easy to walk with a buggy: Plaça de Sarrià and Plaça del Consell de la Vila are right next to each other, and Plaça de Sant Vicenç is a short way down Carrer Major. The Tren de l’Oreneta (in Parc de l’Oreneta), the Sarrià civic centre (Vila Cecília) and the funfair in Plaça Cirici Pellicer are a little further out.
The best way to get there is the FGC train, with stations at Sarrià and Reina Elisenda; on the 2nd, 3rd, 9th, 10th and 11th there is a special timetable until 3 am. There are drinking fountains in Plaça de Sarrià, Consell de la Vila, Sant Vicenç, Artós and del Xiprer, on Carrer Canet and Hort de la Vila and in the small Can Garriga square. Reusable cups at the bar (€1) are not refundable, so the programme asks you to bring one from home.
Mum to mum: if you can only go one day, make it Saturday the 3rd. In the morning you can string together the Blauet hot chocolate, the Follets route and a workshop, then come back in the afternoon for the parade and the Xocogresca. If you have energy left for the second weekend, the castells on Sunday the 11th and the film on Monday the 12th close the festival without a late night.
