🌹📚 Sant Jordi 2026 a Palma
18 e 23 aprile 2026 – Libri, rose e storie invadono la città
Sant Jordi torna a Palma nel 2026 con un formato ampliato – più giorni, più spazi e più modi per viverloNon si tratta più di una celebrazione di un solo giorno; si estende a tutta la città, portando libri e rose nelle piazze dei quartieri, nelle biblioteche e negli spazi culturali.
✨ Aspettati una città ricca di:
- Bancarelle di libri e bancarelle di fiori
- Sessioni di firma autografi per tutta la giornata.
- Spettacoli dal vivo, laboratori e attività per famiglie
- Un'atmosfera festosa pensata per passeggiare, scoprire e condividere.
🌿 📍 Sant Jordi Warm-Up
Saturday, April 18, 2026 – “Llibres i roses a les places”
Before the big day, Palma sets the tone with a pre–Sant Jordi celebration across three neighbourhood locations – a more local, relaxed version of what’s to come.
📍 Luoghi:
- Plaça del Progrés
- Plaça París
- Carrer Nuredduna
🕙 10:00 – 14:00
✨ Cosa aspettarsi:
- Book & flower stalls from local bookshops and florists
- Children’s storytelling sessions
- Street parades with caparrots Tom & Rosa
- Live music with a traditional Xaranga
🎭 Highlights:
- 10:30 – Storytelling sessions across all locations
- 11: 15 / 12: 15 / 13: 15 – Street parades with Tom & Rosa
- Family-friendly atmosphere all morning
A perfect way to experience Sant Jordi lontano dalla folla, especially if you’re with kids or want something more local.
🌹📖 Main Event: Sant Jordi Day
Giovedi, April 23, 2026
This is the day Palma transforms – the historic centre becomes a giant open-air book and flower market.
📍 Where it happens
🕙 All day (approx. 10:00 – 20:00)
The celebration spreads across the entire city centre:
- Plaça d'Espanya
- Carrer Sant Miquel
- via Roma
- La Rambla
- Placa Major
- Piazza della Corte
- Plaça Marquès del Palmer
- Passeig del Born
👉 Expect dozens of bookshops, publishers, comic stores, and florists setting up stalls throughout these areas.
✍️ Author Signings (All Day)
One of the biggest highlights of Sant Jordi — meeting authors and getting books signed.
📍 Mainly concentrated in Plaça Major, La Rambla & surrounding streets
🖊 Key participating bookshops:
- Quart Creixent
- Llibreria Lluna
- Gotham Comics
- Drac Màgic
- Prenota casa
- Rata Corner & Little Rata
- Agapea, Embat, Llibres Colom
⏰ Timing:
- Da 11: 00 a 19: 00, with rotating authors throughout the day
Aspettatevi un mix di:
- Local Mallorcan writers
- National authors
- Comic artists & illustrators
👉 Questo è il heart of Sant Jordi culture – discovering new voices and connecting with writers directly.
🎉 Street Atmosphere & Activities
🎭 Cercavila (Street Parade)
🕓 11:00 – 13:30 e 17:00 – 19:30
- Classici caparrots Tom & Rosa
- Live music with xeremiers & brass bands
- Route through the main Sant Jordi circuit
👉 A moving celebration that brings energy to the entire city.
🎶 Concerto di chiusura
📍 Plaça de l’Olivar
🕗 20:00
- Live concert by Nou Romancer
- A festive and cultural closing to the day
👉 A perfect way to end Sant Jordi – music, atmosphere, and community.
📚 Sant Jordi Traditions
- 🌹 Gift a rose
- 📖 Gift a book
- 💛 Wander the streets without a plan
📢 bonus:
👉 Books are sold with 10% discount on April 23
🎭 Beyond the Streets: Full Cultural Program (April 14–28)
Sant Jordi in Palma goes far beyond the main day, with two full weeks of cultural programming attraverso la città.
✨ I punti salienti includono:
- Book presentations & literary talks
- Reading clubs & writing workshops
- Library activities across Palma
- Children’s storytelling sessions & creative workshops
- Guided literary routes (e.g. Joan Alcover route)
- Concerts, exhibitions & performances
- Family-friendly events across neighbourhood libraries
📍 Locations include:
- Local bookstores (Rata Corner, Llibreria Lila, Quart Creixent…)
- Palma’s public libraries
- Cultural spaces like Misericòrdia & Ca n’Oleo
👉 This extended program makes Sant Jordi feel like a city-wide cultural festival, non solo un singolo giorno.
✨ Why you shouldn’t miss it
Sant Jordi in Palma is one of those days that just flussi:
You start with “just a quick walk”…
and suddenly it’s hours later —
a book in your hand, a rose somewhere in your bag,
and that feeling that the whole city is quietly celebrating something beautiful.
