 This is precisely the route, maintained through the centuries, that defines the personality of the festivities are rock music, jazz, drama plays, music-hall, movies, parties, sport activities and so on.However, the essence of it still is the collection of dances, the bestiary, the "entremesos" (interlude or short farce), the "spoken dances" and the "human castles", all of which shape the "Popular Retinue" of the city, as a genuine corpus, particular of the celebration.It has been named as a Traditional Festival of national interest ("Festa tradicional d'interès nacional", in catalan language), by the Government of Catalonia, and also as a Touristic Festival of national interest by the Spanish Government.