The Three Kings' Day parade in the city of Lleida will affect, albeit in different ways, the three central bridges that cross the Segre River during the five hours the event lasts on January 5th. Although the parade doesn't officially start until 6:00 PM, the three central bridges will be closed to traffic from 4:00 PM. The parade on the eve of Three Kings' Day will cover a two-kilometer route. The Three Kings, who as always will arrive by train at the Lleida-Pirineus station, will set foot in the city at 5:30 PM. However, the parade itself won't begin until 6:00 PM, and will proceed along Plaça Ramon Berenguer IV; Rambla Ferran; Avinguda Francesc Macià, Avinguda Blondel, and Avinguda Madrid; Plaça Espanya; and again Avinguda Blondel, until reaching the Paeria building around 8:00 PM.

When the management team at the Ítaca School in Manresa began developing the school's educational project, they didn't know exactly how the celebrations should be, but they were very clear about what they didn't want. For example, they wanted to avoid at all costs a Castañada celebration that was the same every year of a child's nine years in primary school. They set themselves the challenge, therefore, of rethinking the holidays as a learning objective and adapted them to the needs and possibilities of each educational stage.

Vivos voco, mortuos plango, fiesta decoro, fulgura frango. I call to the living, I mourn the dead, I celebrate the holidays, I undo the lightning.

The chestnut festival is one of the local traditions most threatened by the invasion of imported marketing, based on pure consumerism. Roasted chestnuts, artisan panellets, and sweet wine face off against empty pumpkins lit by candles and those who walk around dressed as zombies. A complex mix that inspires commercial ideas of dubious solvency, a kind of cultural Frankenstein where the chestnut seller wears a witch's hat and children ask for "trick or treatwith a sweet potato in hand.

Holy Week begins with the blessing of the palm tree, a symbolic act that marks the beginning of a time that combines tradition and religious devotion with rest and leisure. This dynamic range expands between those who experience the various events with fervor and spirituality and those who take advantage of the holidays to unwind or travel. The stagnant tradition, seemingly lacking in desire for change, also becomes a tourist attraction, attracting visitors for its heritage value and bringing together two worlds that seem increasingly distant.

For Carnival, in many Catalan towns it is time to take the pots out into the square to fill them with soups, stews and bowls. A popular activity that involves many of the inhabitants of the towns where they are made and that has long been demanding more public recognition. Popular soups, stews and bowls are documented since the 15th century. Some historical research relates their origin to a caloric meal that was prepared before the obligatory fasting that would be carried out during Lent and that was made from the ingredients that were collected from all the houses. However, other sources indicate that it was a meal that the feudal lords and the convents offered to the neediest people in the town. Be that as it may, this tradition speaks of Catalonia is boiling. The book of soups, stews and popular bowls (Edicions Sidillà), by Judit Pujadó, where she not only explains the recipes for these bowls, which are very different, but also the history behind each one. "Overall, we are talking about a popular tradition that, from the beginning of the 20th century, went from being the soup of the poor to becoming the soup of the villages," says Pujadó to explain this more popular and festive character that still dominates today.