Festa Major de Gracia

Barcelona's Gracia neighborhood transforms dozens of individual streets into elaborately decorated, competition-judged installations each summer, built largely from recycled materials by resident associations, alongside correfoc fire runs, human towers, and giant-figure processions across one of the city's most densely celebrated barrio festivals, drawing visitors well beyond the neighborhood itself.

Festa Major de Gracia turns an entire Barcelona neighborhood into a competitive art installation each summer, when residents' associations on dozens of individual streets spend weeks beforehand transforming their block into an immersive decorated set, often built from recycled household materials, ranging from underwater themes to space voyages to fantastical creatures spanning building facades overhead.