Catalunya Independence Day

It's a massive day in the Catalan calendar tomorrow when the Catalan flag will be seen flying on many buildings and hanging from thousands of balconies and windows in the province! September 11th is their national day so as well as celebrations in every village, town and city there will also be protests and marches. Hundreds of thousands of Catalans are expected to participate in what has been described as a human chain stretching 400km down the coast from Port Bou near the French border to Tarragona. Buses from Lloret de Mar will take protesters to their places along the planned route....there will be disruptions on the roads around the protest from 3pm onwards.

Catalan flags flying in Lloret de Mar.

Lloret de Mar late shopping event

On Friday 13th September Lloret will be hosting a grand late night shopping event when most of the stores in the centre of town will be open until 12.30am. Also during the evening there will be a full programme of entertainment in the streets with a mini disco, fashion shows, live concerts with the excellent local bands Snorfy and Soulbug, Flamenco dance, salsa and and so much more that there will hardly be any time for shopping!
Below is the full agenda of activities for the evening, click on the picture to enlarge.

Ermita de les Alegries Festival - Lloret de Mar

 A full day festival will be held at this pretty little church on Sunday 8th September from 10am until 11pm. The day will begin with mass followed by snacks, childrens party, music and the traditional Catalan dance sardanes. Free buses will run from the bus station to the church.

Fenals/Santa Cristina Fiesta

The weekend long fiesta has now come to a close and what an exciting weekend it was, this has been one of the best events of the year! The events yesterday were all taking place in the childrens playground area in Fenals starting at 6pm with the entertainment going on well into the night

 

Zumba!

Drummers 

 

The excellent Coutry Revival Farners who are seen at many events in Lloret de Mar - they do a wide range of music with a country & western / rock & roll theme which brings out all their line dancing fans!

 

 

 

 

 

Once again it was a chance to see some Flamenco style dancing in Lloret, they always get a great welcome as they are all local ladies who live and work and Lloret.

 A little girl from the 'Chiky Morales' Flamenco group...their parents must have been really proud to see them all performing so well on stage!