XALERA, Day of play and dancing in the street, Horta de Sant Joan

Xalera is presented as a dynamic, transversal and reflective space around games, sports and popular dance, promoting mixing and active practice for all those who wish to enjoy movement.

Learn about the traditional games, dances and sports of the nearby territories, sharing and identifying them.

Recover and become aware of the richness of the recreational-sports heritage through this day, exploring its variants and socialization spaces such as squares and streets.

Evidence the permanence and evolution of dances, games and sports over time in the various territories of Terres de l'Ebre, Matarranya and Baix Maestrat.

Experience the "xalera" while playing, dancing and doing physical and sporting activity.

This day aims to organize itself by touring the territory with a shared recreational-sports imaginary. To achieve this challenge, the complicity of the institutions is essential, but even more important is that of the cultural, recreational and sports associations, which are the authentic promoters and guardians of this culture and heritage.

The objectives of the day are to enhance social interest through the media to achieve an impact at the state level, enhance the sporting value, encourage interaction both at the level of Catalonia and at the state level, to highlight the uniqueness of this day as unique in this territory, enhance the reception and its seniority within the territory, facilitate the participation of all, without distinction of gender and promote external projection to value sporting interest within society, involve different entities in the territory: Tierras del Ebro, Matarranya and Baix Maestrat and promote traditional dancing and playing as a form of physical activity.

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