"Les Festes de Santa Eulàlia" is Barcelona’s biggest annual festival for children. The festival of Santa Eulàlia is also known as "La Laia" festival. Laia is a nickname for Eulalia. The main Santa Eulalia festival events take place every year on the days around 12th February which is Santa Eulàlia's day and most of the main festival events are on 12th. The Santa Eulàlia festival programme features more than one hundred activities of all kinds, mostly for children, at many venues all over Barcelona including musuems and the Castell de Montjuic, but mostly in the Ciutat Vella - the old city of Barcelona. The programme for the Santa Eulalia festiival includes many typical Catalan traditions like parades with "gegants" and other fantasy figures. You can see human tower building called castellers and folk dancing called sardanes, fire-runs called correfocs and many other activities including story-telling, puppets, family workshops, talks, concerts and more. A new festival called LlumBCN - Barcelona Light Festival launched in 2012 to coincide with the Santa Eulalia festival. Find full programme of Festival Santa Eulalia further down this page.