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.

When we talk about Patum, Mercè, Les Santes, or Santa Tecla, in Catalonia, it's not necessary for these major festivals to have a place of reference behind them. It's more than implicit. We know ipso facto These are the festivals of Berga, Barcelona, ​​Mataró, and Tarragona. But if we're talking about Fairs, where are we referring to? We Girona residents have no doubt: it immediately reminds us of the cold (because in Girona we say it in the feminine form)., in the Devesa and the smell of chestnuts on the long weekend of Sant Narciso (October 29) and All Saints' Day (November 1). What Catalan city can proudly say that it is once again in the stalemate of the changing weather, when one weekend you're still wearing short sleeves and the next perhaps already wearing a coat and gloves, enjoying the early hours of concerts while holding a glass of ratafia in your glass?

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.