Festa Major, Sitges 2007

I arrived in Sitges on Wednesday evening, and will be here until Monday. The town is throbbing with people, quite apposite to my experience last year, that I recently blogged about. Without realising it, I managed to arrive in Sitges at the busiest time of the year, when their annual festival, the Festa Major, is held. Last night was an incredible 30 minute fireworks display which featured fireworks that went up, and down, and up again, fireworks that burned in the water, and fireworks that looked like they had exploded inside the town´s famous church.

This morning I was woken at 6am to the sound of more fireworks, being let off in the street as part of the traditional street parade. It was repeated this evening, as shown in the photo at the left. Fireworks are ignited in the crowd, and bounce off the narrow laneway walls. It´s amazing, and a little bit scary too! Health and Safety does not seem to be an issue. You´d never see this in Australia or the UK!