 The [[Spanish Civil War]] of 1936 and the subsequent postwar period cast a dark and gloomy outlook on the main festivity, to the extreme of consigning it to a secondary condition.The authorities of that period distorted and misrepresented the history of the city and promoted the small festivity of [[Sant Magí]] to the condition of main festivity, with the idea in mind of using it for attracting tourists in the summer season and thus, to the detriment of the inhabitants of Tarragona.The arrival of democratic town halls has entailed the vindication of the festivities of Santa Tecla as the celebration of and for the inhabitants of [[Tarragona]].