A guide to Girona's Temps de Flors flower festival
The Catalan city of Girona holds its annual flower festival each May. Here's what you can expect this year on its 70th anniversary.
The Temps de Flors is an annual flower festival held in the city of Girona, in the north of Catalonia.
In 2025 it runs from May 10th to 19th all day up until 11pm. The weekends are generally very busy, so opt for one of the weekdays if you want to escape the crowds.
Rather than just regular flower displays, the Catalan city goes all out, creating art installations from blooms like a huge outdoor gallery.
The installations are placed all throughout the city, but most of them are in the Old Town in amongst Girona’s old city walls, ancient Jewish quarter and steep cobbled streets.
This edition celebrates the 70th anniversary of the festival and there will be 114 installations set up across the city.
They have also added in more live music performances, alongside the Girona A Capella festival which happens at the same time. Most of the a capella performances will be held in the Plaça de la Independència.
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The best option is to pick up a map from the Tourist Information at the entrance to the Barri Vell (Old Town), which shows you where each of the displays is located.
There are different routes you can opt for, or simply follow them in chronological order. Even if you don’t follow a map, it’s easy enough to happen across many of the installations as they’re marked with a coloured circles outside each stop.
Many of the exhibits are placed inside some of the city’s most historic and emblematic places such as the Arabic Baths (which incidentally were not built by the Moors at all, but date back to the Jewish community there in 1194), the Girona History Museum and the Passeig Arqueològic, which passes along some of the old city walls.
The highlight, and one of the main installations, is the one on the stairs of Girona Cathedral.
You may in fact recognise the scene looking up at the Cathedral from the bottom of the steps as it featured in Game of Thrones when Jaime Lannister rides his horse up the steps of the Great Sept of Baelor. Keen fans will also spot many other Game of Thrones filming locations across the Old Town.
This year some of the installations include a field of dancing oat plants, human organs made out of the flowers to represent organ donation and a water lily pond with a Monet-like figure looking across from his bridge.
Many of the installations are also abstract, playing with colour and light.
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