Overview

• On July 24, Barcelona City Council and Fundació Festa Major de Gràcia presented the full festival schedule, which features 23 elaborately decorated streets and opens with a pregón by art historian Maria Garganté on August 14.
• Organizers will repeat two 2024 measures to curb overcrowding by postponing the street-decoration awards until August 19 and holding a ‘quiet night’ on August 18 with no amplified music.
• A security and inclusion strategy will deploy around 1,100 cleaning staff alongside three ‘secure itineraries’ with police patrols, daily Purple Points for gender-based violence and LGTBI-phobia advice, and roving information teams.
• The metro will run non-stop for two consecutive nights over the festival weekend, with shuttle buses covering the closed Joanic station due to Line 4 works.
• This year’s social awareness theme addresses unwanted loneliness with a new theatrical performance and public debate at Plaza Joanic on August 21.