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Archive of the Gran Festa · 2010

Valls Calçotada Festival 2010: memories from the original archive

The Gran Festa de la Calçotada de Valls was celebrated on 31 January 2010. Two original publications from Calsotada.com allow us to recover how that day was announced: an invitation published in December 2009 and an entry from January that visually brought the festival closer to those who did not yet know it.

Documentation reviewed on 22 October 2026

Past edition · archive 2010Historical account based on this site's own archive. A complete 2010 programme is not available here, and times have not been inferred from other years.

The 2010 edition

  • Date: 31 Jan 2010
  • Location: Valls (Tarragona)

An invitation from Valls

On 5 December 2009, the website announced the date of January 31 and described the centre of Valls as a gastronomic meeting place. The text spoke of fires to cook calçots, wine served in a porrón and grilled meat. The competitions of eating and growing calçots also stood out.

The publication maintains a voice that is close and linked to the product: its author expressed the wish that Can Pepitu would one day participate in the growers' contest. That comment does not certify a registration or a prize, but it does reflect how the festival was experienced from the environment of this website.

Documentation: Calsotada.com: announcement of the Gran Festa de la Calçotada of 2010

The visual archive before the festival

On 9 January 2010, another entry recommended a panoramic view of Valls to show the environment to potential visitors. It referred to Panorama.cat and again indicated January 31 as the date of the appointment. It is preserved as part of the way the festival was spread on the internet at that time.

As this is a pre-event publication, its promotional image should not be automatically identified as a photograph taken during the 2010 edition. The date of an entry and the date of an image may be different.

Documentation: Calsotada.com: Panorama Photo of Calçotada de Valls

The winner of 2010

The official record records the victory of Adrià Wegrzyn with 355 calçots and 2,710 grams. It is the proven result that completes the two previous publications. The archive thus brings together the announcement itself and the report of the competition without adding an agenda that has not been recovered.

Documentation: Organisation: historical record of the calçots eating contest

Programme documentation

This page brings together the report and the details we have been able to verify. It does not reproduce a complete programme or suggest times for the next festival.

Explore more of the festival

Learn about the calçots eating contest and check its record →

Check the next edition of 2027 and discover the calçotada restaurants from Valls and Alt Camp.

Return to archive of all editions →

Sources and documentation

Information reviewed on 22 October 2026.

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