The coming of the Diada ready to shake Tarragona.

Tarragona. Costa Dorada. In Tarragona the National Day of Catalonia comes in advance, beginning Sept. 10 with a range of activities that will shake Tarragona from the afternoon and will be broadcast on TV3. In NIT10 the young and not so young will be able to enjoy cultural activities, shows and visits to places that will stay open until midnight. Activities will begin at 18 pm in the parking lot of the Platja del Mirade with the display of urban painting walls. The opening ceremony will take place in Plaça del Rei at 19:30, where the painter Josep M. Rossello will paint a large painting in a fusion of painting and music with the participation of Tarragona hot trio and a final that promises to be surprising. For music lovers, the walls of the Torre Minerva will be singing a concert on valencian songs by Carles Denia at 10pm. For younger people, there will be a meeting of rumba and fusion by DJ Dijeila at 20:45 in the Plaza de la Fuente and Fundación Toni Manero then will present their disco funk party at 22:15 and 23:15. Those who prefer sports will have on the Rambla Vella at 8pm the Tarragona City Race organized by the City Council, the final of the IV Football Cup at the city's municipal Torreforta field at 9pm or a football match: Nastic former players against catalan personalities at the club's Nou Stadium Gimnàstic at midnight. Children also may participate in this Nit10 starting at 19:30 at the Plaça de la Font with the Club of teh Tarraconins where children can learn their choreography or in the Forum Plaza, enjoying BOIKOTeatre´s performance Play with silence at 9pm. The latter organized by the platform NitsQ. However, the hot date at night will surely be in the Plaça de la Font at 11pm. The goal is clear: to make Tarragona the cultural epicenter in Catalonia. So the slogan will be to fill the Plaça, jump and jump, shake Tarragona for culture and record this movement with a seismograph. Alongside these activities, several theaters and a wide variety of public spaces will open their doors from late afternoon with guided tours. Metropol Theater, Casa de la Festa, the Museum of the port of Tarragona and the Throne Room will stay open until midnight, while the exhibition hall of Caixa Tarragona, the Museum of Modern Art or the Archaeological Museum will remain until one. All activities are free. On September 11 in the morning flowers will be offered at the monument to Salvador Allende and Rafael Casanova. At 19:30 the Rambla Nova is the meeting point of Castells, towers and pillars Xiquets groups of Tarragona, Tarragona Xiquets Jove dels, Xiquets the Seraglio and Castellers de Sant Pere i Sant Pau. The National Day or Diada will come to an end with the presentation of republican songs at the Metropol Theater. Entrance is free. The National Day is a synonymous for the senyera, so remember that since Wednesday, Sept. 9 at the Festival booth located in the Rambla Nova there will be the free distribution of this symbol to bring out the whole Catalan spirit in Tarragona.

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