APLEC 

L'Aplec Del Caragol is a popular meeting which is held annually, on a weekend in May. It takes place on Champs Elysees in Lleida since 1980.  It is an event where snails are the central characters. Aplec incorporates music, alcohol and parades around the city.

It is very common for the citizens to join in a “penya” and stay there for the whole weekend. In a penya you pay a certain amount of money and you receive food and drink for three days. In a penya people cook by themselves and then they share the food. They also have to wear some special clothes representing the penya. Nowadays there are 102 “penyes.

In 2015 there were 200,000 visitors and twelve tons of snails and 70 tons of alcohol were consumed. There were visitors from Asia, South America…