The 17th Medieval Market Hospitalet will gather this weekend eighty stalls

Hospitalet de l'Infant. Costa Daurada. The 17th Medieval Market in L'Hospitalet de l'Infant will be open from Friday 7 September afternoon, although officially opened on Saturday, September 8, at 12 am with a parade that will start from the Town Hall. Since then, and until Sunday, September 9, all those that went in the old town (located around the squares Berenguer Entenza, the Well and Catalonia) find eighty stalls with items of all kinds of crafts and decorative objects, jewelry, bags, foodstuffs, textiles, toys, demonstrations of ancient crafts, etc.., set in medieval times. In addition, both Saturday and Sunday are planned for various parades and shows and traveling fakirs animation, storytelling and games and children's workshops. This edition of the market, not miss the medieval dinner (Saturday at 22 pm in the Plaza Berenguer Entença), including a fire show and the closing of the market, led the Devils in Hospitalet de l ' Infant and seahorses (Sundays at 22 pm), and there will taverns. These attractive medieval market, we must add the venue where the event is organized: around the neck of the old Hospital de Balaguer, dating from. XIV and gives the town its name (is declared a National Cultural Interest). Located in the center of L'Hospitalet, this building was founded by Prince Peter, son of James II of Anjou and White, is the largest built during the Middle Ages in the old County Prades Mountains. Its appearance is that of a castle, as well as meet and welcome the poor and pilgrims, was also designed to protect the region from attacks by pirates and especially the Moors. His good condition make it the perfect setting for the Medieval Market.

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