Visit The Exciting La Merce Festival
Posted in World Travel on Sep 16th, 2008
Considered Barcelona’s most important festival, La Mercè or La Mare de Déu de la Mercè (The Merciful Mother of God), this festival began in 1871, when the local government first organized a program of special activities to observe the Roman Catholic feast day of Our Lady of Mercy.
The year 1902 saw a new impetus to [...]
