Until the eighteenth century The Patum received the name of Bulla. The hypothesis of the change should be made to reproduce verbally the onomatopoeia of the sound tabal: Pa-tum! Pa-tum!

Red and green are the colors of fire and of nature that define the meaning of the Patum.

In 1902-03 the Giants Refinish Old: white with the black did.

Here's the first of the original poster Patum preserved archive of regional Berguedà;

The New Giant before the year 1927 brought the head and discovered each year, before a Corpus pentinadora would comb it as the fashion of the time.

In 1931 the Eagle's crown was not dancing.

The program of Festival 1932 is written to make it a secular holiday and the separation of the religious connotations.

In 1935 the mayor of Berga, Joan Island and councilors of the government team are in prison to support Companys. A Berga it imposes a mayor, Andrés Bartrina that had trouble finding the gang heads to The Patum. Some Gegantera were elected to that between members of the local brigade.

During the years 1937 and 1938 there was no Patum because of the Spanish Civil War.

The story about the drunken Patum.

It was on 8 June 1939. Corpus Thursday.
The little Ramonet, the Esther, and the other Marcel.lí Massana berguedans who lost the war had been cited in a bar ¨ ¨ Latin Quarter of Paris. They anarchists at heart, men without Borders, had lost more than a war. Had lost their homeland. We did little Ramonet explained many years later ... In the middle of one of those melancholy exiles were men spit: While we are in exile, to make Patum Berga ".
I do not know how they started taral.lejar and the Turks and Cavallets end up dancing, jumping and doing all the sessions and with Patum Tirabols. The Patum the poor we have not invented the twentieth century!

After the Civil War, died in a military coup because of a tail from the Eagle's. Who was dancing el Àliga that day did not know until years later and know that he stopped dancing.
 

The peak nacionalcatolicisme women in the square were frowned upon and the few that can be used ficaven abuse and tocaments by some rather large men.

From the top were filled after four and eight from the fifties they were added to the hundred.