The story
La Patum de Berga in Berga
Berga's La Patum stages a sequence of fire-and-dance performances in the main square each Corpus Christi, including devil figures spinning flaming torches and fire-spitting Plens beasts that spray sparks directly into a densely packed, willingly participating crowd. UNESCO recognized it as a Masterpiece of Intangible Heritage in 2005.
La Patum unfolds each Corpus Christi in Berga's main square, Placa de Sant Pere, as a sequence of ritualized fire-and-dance performances rather than a conventional procession, and UNESCO recognized it in 2005 as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, later folding it into the Representative List.