Charity Sardine Feast (Sant Pere Festival)

Come dusk on the Sunday, Parc de Sant Pere fills with long tables, charcoal smoke and the smell of sardines hitting the grill. This is the seafarers' quarter celebrating its patron saint, and the whole thing doubles as a fundraiser: every euro goes to Llavaneres contra el Cancer, the town's local cancer charity. You queue, you pay your contribution, you eat oily grilled sardines with bread and a drink, elbow to elbow with families who have done this for years.

It kicks off at nine in the evening, once the heat has dropped. The supper is one strand of the wider Sant Pere weekend, which also brings bell-ringing, an offering at the fishermen's monument and popular dancing to a live band. It's a warm, unfussy local affair rather than a tourist set-piece, which is rather the point. Bring an appetite and small change.