Olé, it’s Holi with a Spanish accent

This is Barcelona and the air is vibrant with color. What’s the occasion, you wonder, and turn to ask a reveler whose face is unrecognizable, smeared as it with color. Imagine your surprise when she says, “Holi!”

Holi in Barcelona? Pinch yourself, it’s true. And in Germany, too. The Indian festival of color has made itself at home around the world but in Barcelona it takes on a scale of its own as revelers descend upon the grounds soaking each other with buckets of coloured water and spraying color in the air. It’s almost like being in India.

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