The Sants Walk for La Mercè Festivity

Caminata de Sants

The Barnatresc season returns this Sunday, 18 September.

The Sants Walk is, alongside the La Mercè Fun Run, one of the sports events set to kick off Barcelona’s Festa Major or big annual festival.

The 13km walk sets off at 9 am from the Espanya Industrial park, passing through some of the neighbourhood’s streets and part of Montjuïc mountain, including part of the Olympic Ring and the museum and theatre zone.

The refreshments and control points will be located in the Can Ferrero gardens and will be in service from 10 am to 12.30 pm.

As usual in the Barnatresc walk season, no prior registration is required for taking part. All you need to do is turn up at the set-off point at the scheduled start time and produce your official card or, should you not have one, collect the corresponding route map.

During this new Barnatresc season, to help to minimise any waste, refreshment drinks will be served in water jugs.

2nd Lluís Companys race – run & walk

2nd Lluís Companys race

In a tribute to the People’s Olympics that were due to be held in Barcelona in 1936, today Saturday 3 October, will see the 2nd Lluís Companys’ run and walk, which is open to everyone.

The aim is to regain the spirit of fraternity, good sportsmanship and solidarity those games originally intended while commemorating and reclaiming a sporting event linked to the city and imbued with the values of democracy and solidarity.

The walk is planned to start at 9.30 am and the run half an hour later at 10 am. The route starts opposite INFEC (the National Institute of Physical Education of Catalonia) on Avinguda de l’Estadi, and goes round the Olympic Ring.

The People’s Olympics were the democratic government’s answer to the Berlin Olympic Games of that same year, now 70 years ago, with their marked xenophobic and racist character. They were held under Hitler’s Nazi regime, with the aim of demonstrating the sporting superiority of the Aryan race.

However, the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War cut short these games, which were due to open on 19 July, 1936, the day after Franco’s military uprising.

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