The Topic

For many years The Patum has been related to the religion and it is true and recognized for all that the history o The Patum cannot be explained without explaining its sacred-historic-population past. Such as the father Armengou explains in his book, “The Patum of Berga”: “ The  Patum  of Berga treats itself about the only living celebration of medieval roots that has remained intact across the centuries” Of this form Esteve Espelt tries to express this feeling that for centuries has been kept and that all those persons who have been assisted to the party could have verified. By means of a combination of sculptures and painting he gives a vision of what one feels, of what one lives in the square, of the environment and of the energy of each one of the jumps: angels i dimonis, turcs I cavallets, gegants, nans, áliga, guites…

Definitively, this monothematic work tries to express the feeling of one of the parties most established to the Corpus Cristi without leaving the aesthetic and modern expression of the work.

The culture and the Patum

The festivity of the Corpus in Berga is associated with the Patum wich is an emblematic party not only for the city and the region, but for Catalonia. The Patum consists in a representation sacredly – historic – population across a few mytical and symbolic prominent figures who jump and dance to the sound auctioneer of the Tabl and are accompanied by a wonderfull music and by a great snap of petards and for an intense civil participation.
The beginnings of the Patum de Berga, always have been a reason of intellectual division but it seems the opinion of the Patum is dated form the middle of the 14 th century is increasing. Former, the Patum of Berga had been done inside the Church but it moved out of the ecclesiastic enclousure and after that it has been acquiring the current form.
The processions of the corpus were accompanied by some of the exras but these situation changed, and nowadays although The Patum is still linked with the church, only the Angels assisted to the Thursday and Sunday high Mass of Corpus, and all the others extras wait patently the exit of the authorities and assistants to the mass.
The meaning of the Patum is difficult to know and how the father Armengou says: “neither a sacred representation, nor a popular dance, nor exclusively festival of street, boisterous and primitive. But it is all that and furthermore sew.”.
At the present the Patum of Berga has been declared by UNESCO, world patrimony, in the category of Masterprice of the Oral and Immaterial Patrimony of the Humanity. In I make concrete 25/11/2005 the Patum of Berga it penetrated the Catalan and Spanish borders to be positioned worldwide.