After a mostly holiday month of August and in which the bulk of the population has taken a well-deserved break from their daily obligations, he arrives September and with her resumption of labor, economic and social activities.
In order to plan and reconcile work and personal life in the best possible way, Catalan workers need to know the work and holiday calendar of its autonomous community and, specifically, of its city.
The existence of these non-working days derives from the Workers’ Statute. The royal decree of 37 years ago. RD 2001/1983, of July 28, is the regulation that regulates working hours, special days and breaks.
Barcelona holidays in September 2021
This year, as usual, it has a total of 14 holidays, eight of which are held throughout Spain and another four are chosen by each autonomous community. The other two remaining are chosen by each locality.
One of these two holidays chosen by Barcelona falls in September. It’s about the La Mercè festival, which is celebrated annually on September 24 and this year falls on a Friday. The second festival of the Catalan capital was the Second Easter, on May 24.
The people of Barcelona will also be able to enjoy another festival this month, although this is at the regional level. It’s about the Day of Catalonia, which every year takes place on Sunday 11 of September.
Therefore, the citizens of Barcelona will have two public holidays this September:
In Barcelona
Holidays this September
11 of September – Day of Catalonia
24th September – La Mercè
La Mercè 2021, still marked by the pandemic
La Mercè, the biggest festival in Barcelona, will be held from 23 to 26 September and it will count, despite the pandemic, more than 500 activities. All of them will have a limited capacity controlled and will not be extended beyond the 00:30 hours. Those interested should do Advance reservation.
The mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, and the new deputy mayor for Culture, Education, Science and the Community, Jordi Martí, detailed yesterday how the different events that make up the planned festive program for this year will take place.
In 2021 the 150th anniversary of the first major festival organized by the Barcelona City Council and in which Havana is the guest city.
At the presentation, Mayor Colau announced that the Barcelona neighborhood activist Custodia Moreno was chosen as the proclaimer of La Mercè 2021 and unveiled the poster for this major festival, created by illustrator Malika Favre.
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