The festival of Sant Jordi<\/strong>, also known as the Day of the Book<\/strong> outside Catalonia, is celebrated on 23 April every year<\/strong> throughout Catalonia. This festival is an opportunity to honour the patron saint of Catalonia, Saint George, and to celebrate culture and the love of reading.<\/strong><\/p>\n During this festival, the streets of Barcelona<\/a> are filled with book stalls and roses<\/strong>, which are the symbols of the Sant Jordi festival<\/strong>. Renowned authors join in the celebration, signing copies of their works for lovers of reading. If you’re a university student in Barcelona, you can’t miss this unique celebration!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> For the 2024 edition, it is expected that literature lovers will be able to find a large number of new releases at the book fair, from fiction novels to non-fiction and poetry.<\/strong> Many international authors are also expected to join this year’s celebration, which will increase the variety of books available.<\/p>\n If you are a literature lover, you should know that this edition will have an island closed to traffic in the heart of the Eixample, between Diagonal, Gran Via, Balmes and Pau Claris streets.<\/strong> This space will also extend along the Rambla and Gran de Gr\u00e8cia.<\/strong> The rest of Barcelona will celebrate the festival with reserved spaces in the different districts of the city, where many shopkeepers will be able to set up their book and rose stalls in the street from 22 April.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> If you are looking for a book for yourself or to give as a gift this Sant Jordi and you don’t know where to start or which one to choose, here is a small list of the best-selling books for 2024<\/strong> in each category:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> If, on the other hand, you are clear about what type of book you want and are looking for the best books for students<\/strong>, here is a list of the best books for students, ideal for choosing the one that best suits you:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> For Sant Jordi 2024, the city of Barcelona is repeating the literary superblock model, which was a great success last year.<\/p>\n The main area will once again be Ciutat Vella along with the Ramblas<\/strong> to offer the biggest literary and flowery attraction with 94 stops. Passeig de Gr\u00e0cia and Gran de Gr\u00e0cia will also be filled with book and rose stalls.<\/p>\n The neighbourhood of Les Corts will have 9 stops and Sant Mart\u00ed 8. Sant Andreu and Sarr\u00eca will also have 6 and 4 stops.<\/strong> To celebrate one of the most beautiful days of the year Barcelona will host writers and authors of books to offer different activities such as book signings. David Walliams, a British writer and actor will become the author of the reading proclamation next Monday 22nd April at the Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez Library.<\/strong><\/p>\n The proclamation is the starting signal for the Sant Jordi festival and has been promoted by the city’s network of libraries since 2003. Here are some of the stops and times of the signings for this Sant Jordi 2024<\/strong> in the city of Barcelona:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> Our residents of Unihabit Ciutat Vella<\/a> and Unihabit Gr\u00e0cia<\/a> will be able to enjoy an incredible day in the city of Barcelona and the stops located very close to our university residences<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unihabit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unihabit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unihabit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unihabit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unihabit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13307"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.unihabit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13779,"href":"https:\/\/www.unihabit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13307\/revisions\/13779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unihabit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unihabit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unihabit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unihabit.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Libros](\"https:\/\/www.unihabit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Libros-recomendados-Sant-Jordi-2024-600x400.jpg\" "\\"Libros")
<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>List of best-selling Sant Jordi books<\/strong><\/h2><\/div>
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Non-fiction<\/strong><\/h3><\/div>
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Poetry<\/strong><\/h3><\/div>
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Children and Youth<\/strong><\/h3><\/div>
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Psychology and self-improvement<\/strong><\/h3><\/div>
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Nutrition<\/strong><\/h3><\/div>
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<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>List of recommended Sant Jordi books for students<\/strong><\/h2><\/div>
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<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>Organisation of Barcelona for Sant Jordi 2024<\/strong><\/h2><\/div>
Alta\u00efr library<\/b><\/h3><\/div>
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La Casa del Libro<\/b><\/h3><\/div>
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Fnac<\/b><\/h3><\/div>
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