Several columns of tractors set off this Friday morning from various points in Catalonia towards Barcelona. They arrived in the Catalan capital at midday and, since early afternoon, have been blocking Barcelona's Gran Via, where traffic is blocked from Plaça Universitat almost to Passeig de Gràcia. Many farmers arrived with their tractors and left them in the central lane, while others traveled in their own cars and parked in front of the Coliseum cinema, on the side opposite the headquarters of the Department of Agriculture.

The peasant revolt, expressed in noisy demonstrations, but also in provocative actions such as turning village entrance signs upside down, has inspired the new Brots festival, which will be held from October 30 to November 2 in several villages in the Baix Empordà region. It will combine music, dance, and visual arts as a tribute to a land where "for millennia, the people of the grove worked their backs off to extract green gold from the olive trees." Organized by the Musical Youth of Torroella de Montgrí, Brots is an anti-festival that deliberately distances itself, in terms of its conception and dates, from the large summer festivals that attract crowds and are mostly held by the sea. "It's an initiative designed for everyone, but especially for the people of the country and the farmers, and to highlight that hinterland that is discovered when you look at land and not at sea," says Martí Sabrià, festival advisor.