Culture

Culture

A town with a vibrant cultural heartbeat

The cultural rhythm of Torroella de Montgrí and l’Estartit is dynamic and diverse, placing the municipality among the most important cultural destinations in Catalonia. Art, music, and heritage enrich the cultural offering throughout the year.

Among all the arts, music stands out for its strength and tradition. The municipality has a rich musical heritage, reflected in a stable program of auditions, concerts, and sardana dances. The Auditori Teatre Espai Ter offers a diverse cultural agenda, while events like the Torroella Festival attract top names from the music scene each year.

Moreover, this land has been a source of inspiration for painters, sculptors, writers, and photographers. The cultural dynamism has fostered the creation of private foundations and art galleries, such as the Fundació Vila Casas, the Fundació Mascort, Atrium Roca Sans, and Traç d’Art (in l’Estartit). At the municipal level, spaces like the Capella de Sant Antoni in Torroella, the Exhibition Hall of the EMD of l’Estartit, and the Museum of the Mediterranean, located in an iconic historic building, complete this unique cultural offering.

Festivals and Fairs: Tradition and Innovation Throughout the Year

Festivals and Fairs: Tradition and Innovation Throughout the Year

Fairs and festivals have always played a vital role in our local culture.

With time-honoured fairs and festivals, fiestas and street parties, sardana dancing, sea shanty concerts, parades of traditional “giants”, maritime processions, and everything else that gives a town its personality and identifies it with its roots.

Other more innovatory festivals are slowly but surely attracting their own public: Mediterranean Fair, Magic Festical, Beatles Weekend and Medes Islands Pirates and Corsairs.

Calendar of the main festivities, festivals and popular traditions of the municipality

  • Torroella de Montgrí and l'Estartit

    • Three wise man festivity and parade, January 5 and 6
    • Carnivals, February/March
    • Saint George’s Day (Sant Jordi), April 23
    • Catalonia’s National Day, September 11
  • Torroella de Montgrí

    • Empordà Fair, Cooking and health, May
    • FIMAG, Street Magic Fair, June
    • Festival of Torroella de Montgrí, August
    • Festa Major of Sant Genís (Town’s saint patron day), August 25
    • Gathering of Santa Caterina, November 25
    • Saint Andrew’s Fair (Agricultural and Livestock Fair), November 30
    • Espai Ter Theater Auditorium, annual schedule
  • L'Estartit

    • Itaca Sant Joan (Live music festival), June 23
    • Feast of the Lady of mount Carmel (Fisherman’s day), July 16
    • Beatles Weekend, July
    • Jazz Festival l’Estartit, July
    • Feast of Santa Anna (Saint’s patron day of l’Estartit), July 26
    • Pirates and Corsairs in the Medes Islands, last weekend of September
    • Feast of Santa Llúcia (Winter’s Saint’s patron day of l’Estartit) , December 13