Festivals in Tortosa

Festes de la Cinta, Renaixement and culture in Tortosa

The main festival of Tortosa is Ribbon Festivals, dedicated to the Mare de Déu de la Cinta, patron saint of the city along with Àngel Custodi. The municipal source explains that are celebrated around the first sunday in september and that Sunday is the Patron Saint's Day.

• Día principal: first Sunday in September, with religious events in honour of the Verge de la Cinta.
• Usual duration: five days, from Thursday to the first Monday in September, with proclamation and proclamation of pubilles and pubilletes the previous Saturday.
• Usual places: streets, squares, festive spaces and Tortosa Cathedral, according to the programme of each edition.
• Traditions: offering, procession, popular dances, concerts, correfoc, cosso iris, distribution of panoli and religious events.
• Participación: City Council, entities, pubilles and pubilletes, associations, citizens, families and visitors.
• Local public holidays in 2026: the electronic office indicates for Tortosa 25 May y 7 September. These public holidays are not the same as the entire holiday period.

Otro evento cultural destacado es la Festa del Renaixement, which Tortosa Turisme places in the second half of July for four days. They also highlight the cultural agenda, the museums, the city of the Renaissance, the Jewish call, modernism, the fortifications, the Via Verda, the Ebro river and the natural environment of Els Ports and the Delta de l'Ebre.