Holi is a Hindu celebration that more or less takes place in the spring equinox. During Holi, people throw coloured chalk on the others with a special signification for each colour: the red one refers to happiness and love, the green one wishes harmony, the orange one optimism and the blue one means vitality.
Originally, Hindu people celebrated Holi as the last funny thing to do before working hard while planting. The celebration starts with a huge fire for the first night, reminding the cremation of Holika, a deamon who was killed by Vishnu, the Preserver God in the Hindu religion.
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| Vishnu, the Preserver |
During the day after, write-dressed people walk with pigments and throw them on the others in the street. After that, they apologise saying "Bura na mano, Holî hai" - Don't be mad, it's Holi.
This year, Holi was celebrated on the 6th March in Hindu religion. But in Barcelona, where Holi is celebrated every year as well, the date was the 12th April.
After travelling to the very North of the city, and climbing a horrible slope, you finally could arrive to a nice area, and face a huge multi-coloured crowd.
During the day, there were some "explosions" of colours, during when the crowd was literally bleue-green-orange-red painted, enjoying the warmth and the joy of the celebration. It was also possible to buy chalk bags for some Euros and have a lot of fun throwing chalk on friends as well as on strangers.
Holi in Barcelona is also the occasion to listen to very good music under the sun, but also to be watched weirdly in the metro and to be asked about why and where you were painted that way. In short, a very fun experience that you should try and enjoy too!
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