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The Priorat is alive all year: wine fairs, the grape harvest, village festivals and new-oil fairs. Here are the events that come round every season, plus the official calendars where you can check the exact dates.
📍 Several Priorat villages
The tenth edition of the festival of music, wine, architecture and landscape, with concerts and activities in several Priorat villages from 28 August to 7 December. Full programme and tickets at terrer.cat.
📍 el Masroig
Celler Masroig celebrates the arrival of the year’s first wine with wine tastings, live music and an open cellar.
📍 Falset
A long-established multi-sector fair in Falset, with a crafts fair and a showcase of the Priorat’s rancio and sweet wines.
📍 Capçanes
A crafts fair with historical re-enactment, guided visits to the Capçanes cellar, tastings, a concert and talks.
📍 Bellmunt del Priorat
The feast of the miners’ patron saint, revived from local tradition, with a procession from the mines to the village and a musical performance.
📍 la Bisbal de Falset
A guided oil tasting, a communal breakfast, tastings and a guided visit to the oil mill.
📍 Cabacés
A much-loved children’s festival: children collect sweets through the streets while singing a very old traditional song.
📍 la Vilella Alta
A village festival with live music and a vermouth.
📍 els Guiamets
A village festival with a communal breakfast and dancing.
📍 Falset
A festival of strong rural tradition for St Anthony, with a parade of decorated mounts ridden by riders in traditional dress, and blessed bread rolls at High Mass.
📍 Gratallops
Gratallops’ winter village festival.
📍 Cabacés
The village festival, with the handing out of «blaiets», dancing and sardanes. On the Saturday of the festival there is an olive-oil festival with a communal breakfast, a visit to the co-operative’s mill and a talk.
📍 Falset
The 32nd edition of the DOQ Priorat and DO Montsant wine showcase, held at the Falset fairground over the weekend, with a day for trade professionals on the Monday. Tastings use tickets or a tasting pack bought on the fair’s website.
The events that return every season, although the exact dates change from one edition to the next.
📍 Falset
The big showcase of DOQ Priorat and DO Montsant wines, with street tastings and guest wineries.
📍 Across the region
The grape harvest fills the wineries with activity; some open their doors for hands-on harvest days.
📍 Every village
Each village celebrates its festa major with music, dancing, giants and street events.
📍 Cabacés, la Bisbal and others
The olive villages celebrate the arrival of new DOP Siurana oil with tastings and markets.
📍 Across the region
The calçotada — Catalonia’s great winter food ritual — arrives at restaurants and farmhouses.
Dates are indicative and can change from year to year. Always confirm them on the official calendars before you travel.
For exact dates and week-by-week activities, check the official sources, which are always up to date:
Official tourism agenda and information for the Priorat region.
Events agenda from the Catalan Tourism Agency.
Activities and wine tourism from the DOQ Priorat regulatory board.
Activities and wine tourism from the DO Montsant appellation.