CHRISTMAS TIME IN BARCELONA WITH LIMOUSINE RENTAL

Christmas just reached Barcelona! And because of it in Limousine Rental we want to give you some useful advices in order that you don’t miss anything and you could enjoy to these dates in the city.

Barcelona decores its streets with typical Christmas lights in December that make us feel a combination between tradition and modernity what makes it an ideal destination to spend your holidays.

Barcelona Christmas decoration 

 If you visit us in Christmas time, this information might have interest to you:

• Christmas Shopping in Barcelona: the city is the paradise of the purchases, and not only in Christmas. The most popular streets where you will be able to do your better Christmas shopping are Passeig de Gracia, Rambla de Catalunya, Carrer Pelai, Avenida Diagonal and some others.

• Christmas Traditions in Barcelona:  there are a lot of them but the most popular are the "caganers" and "cagatiós". The "Caganer" is a small figure of a person who simulates defecating (it was symbolizing the fertility of the Earth), but nowadays already he has been adopting faces of the most famous people. The "Cagatió" is a small trunk of wood, smilingly dressed in a Christmas hat and a blanket (not to get cold), which is given to the children days before Christmas. They have to take care of him and feed him until the night of Christmas Eve when children hit it in order that "it" "shits" chocolates, nougats, neules (rolled wafers), delicacies, and so on. Another tradition worth visiting is the Manger that Sant Jaume installs every year in Plaza Sant Jaume.

The "Cagatió"

• Food of Christmas: in this time there are typical the dry floury sweets, shortcake doughs, all kinds of nougats, ring-shaped rolls of wine, in pastry shops. The stuffed canelonni of meat and the soup of galets are Catalan local dishes of Christmas.

Soup of galets

• Fairs of Christmas in Barcelona: the most important 2 fairs are the Fira de Santa  Llúcia placed in the Plaza of the Cathedral and the Fira de la Sagrada Familia installed in the Plaza of La Sagrada Familia, next to Gaudí’s masterpiece. In them it will be able to buy everything related to the Christmas: mangers, cagatiós, firs, Christmas decorations, gastronomic products, lights and much more.

 In Limousine Rental we want to invite you to enjoy the Christmas at maximum. For this reason, we put at your disposal our fleet of vehicles. Let us to take you home for Christmas!