The legend of Sant Jordi was born in this small town in Tarragona

When any lover of books or roses asked about the celebration of Sant Jordisurely your head will go directly to La Ramblathat majestic Barcelona street than the April 23 Every year is a gift for the senses. The most beautiful day to visit the Catalan capital, for many of its visitors.

However, perhaps there are many who do not know that, although Barcelona also offers to whom it is visited by a certain walled enclosure, it was about 120 kilometers and In a small town of a majestic wall where a good part of the legend of Sant Jordi and the Dragon was created.

Is called Montblanc And it is nestled in the region of the Barberà Conca, in the province of Tarragona. It has a monumental wall, of the fourteenth century, in the form of a castle and considered one of the best preserved in all of Catalonia. Even today 30 defensive towers remain standing.

Apart from the splendor of the wall that may surprise more than a clueless tourist, the legend unites Montblanc and Sant Jordi. And it is that tradition counts, according to the oldest of the place, there were A dreaded dragon frightening the residents of Montblanc, a dragon who ended up crops and cattle. Tired and resigned, the neighbors agreed to deliver to the insatiable dragon, as a sign of goodwill, a person of the people themselves. One every day. And in those came the turn of the king’s daughter.

Because it was, at the crucial moment in which the dragon was going to devour the princess, when a gentleman who crossed the heart of the dragon with a sword appeared, saving the young woman. And, following the letter the legend, From the blood that sprouted from the beast, a rose bush ended up. The gentleman, Sant Jordi, cut one of those roses and gave it to the princess.

Some time later, Sant Jordi was erected Patron of Catalonia (In the nineteenth century), becoming a symbol of the Catalan territory with the Renaixença, political and cultural movement that recovered the signs of Catalan identity.

And, meanwhile, Montblanc revives that courage of courage with theatrical recreations and parades over its cobbled streets. In fact and since 1987, in its famous and busy street, more than 300 neighbors dress with dresses of the time and recreate the defeat of the dragon at the hands of the gentleman and neighbor of Montblanc. Scene by locists and tourists that ends the delivery of the mythical pink.