The Festa dels Traginers de Balsareny is popular all over Catalonia. Declared a Festival of Tourist Interest in 1970 and a Traditional Festival of National Interest in Catalonia in 1999. It is always celebrated the week before the carnival in Balsareny.
The Festa dels Traginers de Balsareny is popular all over Catalonia. Declared a Festival of Tourist Interest in 1970 and a Traditional Festival of National Interest in Catalonia in 1999. It is always celebrated the week before the carnival in Balsareny.
The Festa dels Traginers de Balsareny is popular all over Catalonia. Declared a Festival of Tourist Interest in 1970 and a Traditional Festival of National Interest in Catalonia in 1999. It is always celebrated the week before the carnival in Balsareny.
All guilds chose a patron saint to hold a feast and seek protection. Thus, all those who used animals as a working tool seem to have taken refuge in Sant Antoni Abat, known as "the piglet". Because this animal is always on his side in the iconography. Horsemen and farmers needed the horseshoe to carry out their work. Therefore, on January 17, they quit their jobs and took the animals to bless. After the Mass celebrated in honor of the saint, there were also celebrations, dances and a party.
All guilds chose a patron saint to hold a feast and seek protection. Thus, all those who used animals as a working tool seem to have taken refuge in Sant Antoni Abat, known as "the piglet". Because this animal is always on his side in the iconography. Horsemen and farmers needed the horseshoe to carry out their work. Therefore, on January 17, they quit their jobs and took the animals to bless. After the Mass celebrated in honor of the saint, there were also celebrations, dances and a party.
In Balsareny, at the beginning of the 20th century, in addition to the morning religious party, evening and evening dances were organized in the Casino, with orchestra. At that time there were still a large number of pack animals such as horses, mules and donkeys. The Balsareny festival always had a great impact on him.
When almost the entire field had been motorized in the 1930s, farmers would bring the animals to bless after Mass, and they would be put to work that day. Due to the war, however, it was necessary to return the animal to the wagon or to plow. Then came the idea of celebrating the Feast of St. Anthony again. After an informal meeting in 1943, the first commission was set up to restore the party once and for all.
The Program carried the traditional mass and blessing of animals; parade with a band and a cavalry parade through the streets of the village, presided over by the flag of Sant Antoni carried by a Banderer accompanied by two Cordonists, all three mounted on horseback.
carried the traditional mass and blessing of animals; parade with a band and a cavalry parade through the streets of the village, presided over by the flag of Sant Antoni carried by a Banderer accompanied by two Cordonists, all three mounted on horseback.
Consolidation of the Party Carriers Balsareny
Later, the idea arose of turning the parade into a historical-retrospective cavalcade of the old royal road hauler. With the support of the City Council, he began the search for devices and fittings of all kinds in the different modes of transport.
Later, the idea arose of turning the parade into a historical-retrospective cavalcade of the old royal road hauler. With the support of the City Council, he began the search for devices and fittings of all kinds in the different modes of transport. Party Traginers Balsareny Later, the idea arose of turning the parade into a historical-retrospective cavalcade of the old royal road hauler. With the support of the City Council, he began the search for devices and fittings of all kinds in the different modes of transport.
