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Celebrate 23 April #UNESCO World Book & Copyright Day and #SantJordi with #BooksAndRoses. Join in! #BooksAndRoses2026

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🙌Thanks for bringing #BooksAndRoses to students and Brooklyn Nets staff in NYC, Jordi Fernández and family! 📚🌹
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Celebrated every April, Sant Jordi's Day is Catalonia’s favorite day for love and literature. In celebration, the Fernández family donated books, roses, and bookmarks to the students. He also visited the Brooklyn Nets offices to hand out roses for each employee, sharing in the tradition 🌹
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📚🌹🐉 Happy #SantJordi — or #BooksAndRoses Day! Help us spread the love for books, legends and romance by sharing this greeting card! 💌
Booksandroses greeting card

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📚🌹Head out to give away roses and books, enjoy the stalls, the beautiful day, the scent of roses, the joy, Catalan culture, and the book presentations... anywhere in the world. 🗺️ 🐲It doesn’t matter if you’re far from Catalonia—the spirit of #BooksAndRoses knows no borders.
Tomorrow is Sant Jordi promotional banner

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🐲 Curious about #SantJordi but can’t make it to Catalonia on April 23? 📚🌹 As of today, @BooksRosesWorld features 124 #booksandroses events in 86 cities across 36 countries—spreading the tradition far beyond Catalonia. 📈 And it’s still growing! catalunya-internacional.cat/…
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Catalonia’s Day of #BooksAndRoses in The Times: “How to sell 2M books in a day: close the streets and stock roses”. thetimes.com/world/europe/ar…
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🐉🌹📚Celebra #SantJordi con muchos libros y rosas en todas las Cafebrerías de @El_Pendulo este 23 de abril. 📢Descubre los nuevos autores catalanes de moda, conoce la primera novela de Jaume Sués y ven con tus hijos a descubrir la leyenda con cuentacuentos y manualidades.
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Hoy celebramos el arte en todas sus formas!🎨🎭📚 El arte nos conmueve, conecta y comunica. Una celebración para promover el desarrollo, la difusión y el disfrute del arte. Este año, con motivo de la Diada de Sant Jordi, regala arte, regala libros y regala emociones.
Imagen con muchos cuadros para celebrar el 15 de abril, día mundial del arte.

ALT Imagen con muchos cuadros para celebrar el 15 de abril, día mundial del arte.

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With just over a week to go until SANT JORDI🥀💚, we’d like to remind you of some key sales figures for this special day, both for booksellers and rose sellers. #BooksAndRoses
Basic data about what Sant Jordi represents in terms of book and rose sales in Catalonia

ALT Basic data about what Sant Jordi represents in terms of book and rose sales in Catalonia

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Today is INTERNATIONAL KISS DAY and Sant Jordi is all about love and spending time with the people you care about. 😙 📚🌹April 23 is coming up, so don't forget the book, the rose, and... to kiss your loved ones. Do you know any other similar famous mural featuring a kiss?
The picture in this post is the mural "El món neix en cada besada" (The World Begins With Every Kiss), located in Isidre Nonell Square in Barcelona. Designed by Joan Fontcuberta

ALT The picture in this post is the mural "El món neix en cada besada" (The World Begins With Every Kiss), located in Isidre Nonell Square in Barcelona. Designed by Joan Fontcuberta

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🇮🇹Milano festeggia Sant Jordi in collaborazione con Món Edizioni , @LaStatale e l' @IRLlull. 🗣️Anna Benvenuti, docente del corso di Lingua e Letteratura Catalana, ci racconterà della tradizionale ricorrenza catalana del 23 aprile. #BooksAndRoses
Sant Jordi 2026. Milano. Piazza Sant'Alessandro. 23 aprile.

ALT Sant Jordi 2026. Milano. Piazza Sant'Alessandro. 23 aprile.

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La palabra en catalán de la semana es ¡SÈPAL! (sépalo) 🌸 Toda flor necesita uno, porque una vez que la flor se abre, ayuda a sostenerla y mantener su forma.
Definición de la palabra catalana "Sèpal" en castellano.

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Look at these stunning images of 📚 @livrarialello. The large stained-glass skylight covers 20 m² and features the symbol of the Lello brothers (the founders of the bookstore), with the inscription “Decus in Labore”. Did you know they celebrated #BooksAndRoses in 2024?🐲
Livraria Lello, Porto, Portugal, general view

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Livraria Lello, Porto, Portugal, stained glass detail

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Una setmana més! Avui la paraula triada és DIADA, molt adient per Sant Jordi.💯🐲 #BooksAndRoses
Definició de la paraula Diada

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✍️Today, on the The Catalan Word of the Week, the word is LLOM (the spine of a book). 📚Did you know it? It's the part of the book that remains visible when placed on a shelf, and where the title and author are written.
Definition of the Catalan word Llom in English

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Did you know that Catalunya has a network of public libraries accessible to everyone? Visit your nearest library to enjoy reading, and this way you can buy your favorite books for Sant Jordi! 🐲📖 You can find the libraries on this website: biblioteques.gencat.cat/ca/i…
Map of public libraries in Catalonia

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Comment below which one of these classic libraries is your favorite!💞 The Joanina Library in Coimbra, Portugal. The Admont Abbey Library in Admont, Austria. The Marciana Library in Venice, Italy. #BooksAndRoses
Joanina library in Coimbra

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Marciana library in Venice

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Admont Abbey Library

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🇮🇪Bon dia de Sant Patrici! Sabies que el primer lloc on va aparèixer la representació del famós trèvol irlandès ☘️ (Shamrock) va ser al Book of Kells, un manuscrit il·lustrat amb motius ornamentals, elaborat per monjos celtes cap a l'any 800 a l'abadia d'Iona (Escòcia)?
abadia d'Iona a Escòcia

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Continuamos con la sección creada el año pasado: La palabra en catalán de la semana, para descubrir más curiosidades. La palabra de esta semana es GAUDIR 🤩🎉 (disfrutar, divertirse), porque por Sant Jordi es obligatorio pasar-lo bien. #BooksAndroses
Gaudir, verbo intransitivo. Sentir placer o alegría a causa de algo.

ALT Gaudir, verbo intransitivo. Sentir placer o alegría a causa de algo.

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Saps què és #BooksAndRoses? Som una iniciativa que, a través de la nostra web, vol donar a conèixer Sant Jordi arreu del món! 🌍🌹
Text promocional de booksandroses amb moltes roses vermelles a sobre, el text diu "BooksAndRoses és una iniciativa que dona visibilitat als actes de Sant Jordi que s'organitzen fora de Catalunya".

ALT Text promocional de booksandroses amb moltes roses vermelles a sobre, el text diu "BooksAndRoses és una iniciativa que dona visibilitat als actes de Sant Jordi que s'organitzen fora de Catalunya".

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🌹📚Comença el compte enrere pel dia de Sant Jordi! Recordeu com va anar l’any passat fora de Catalunya? Aquí en teniu un resum. Recordeu que qualsevol novetat la publicarem a la nostra web.
Resum de BooksAndRoses l'any 2025 per donar el tret de sortida al projecte durant l'any 2026

ALT Resum de BooksAndRoses l'any 2025 per donar el tret de sortida al projecte durant l'any 2026

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