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Andorran Holiday Calendar: Estelàrium Festivities, NYE Parties & Exhibitions

La Massana's Estelàrium packs weekend with puppet shows, music, workshops and family fun, alongside NYE events, youth activities and ongoing art.

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Key Points

  • La Massana Estelàrium: puppet shows, music, workshops, galactic play area Saturday from 16:30.
  • NYE parties: Xibarri in Arinsal (00:30-06:00), Balland dance (€25) in Escaldes-Engordany.
  • Youth candle workshop, Ordino toy donation run, Encamp family dance and activities.
  • Exhibitions: Pellejero illustrations, Woolf London, Romanesque art, Egyptian artefacts, pioneer photos.

### Andorran Holiday Calendar: Estelàrium Events, New Year's Eve Parties, and Ongoing Exhibitions

La Massana hosts a packed Estelàrium programme this weekend with puppet shows, music, workshops and family activities. The schedule starts Saturday at 16:30 in Plaça de l’Església with the puppet performance *M’he portat bé!*, blending stories of wishes and magic. A galactic Christmas play area for young children runs simultaneously until 20:30 in the same location, including a Royal Page visit for dropping off letters to Santa.

Music continues in La Massana with the Coral de Sant Antoni at 17:00, the traditional show *Qui no vulgui pols, que no vagi a l’era* at 18:00, and the Andorra Gòspel Cor at 19:00, all in Plaça de l’Església. Face-painting and a Christmas postcard workshop with Martexu begin at 19:00. Later, Black Andorra x Reaktor Group TGN presents Amygdala at 23:00 in Arinsal’s sociocultural centre—now also the venue for Xibarri New Year’s Eve 2026, a party with 10,000 watts of sound, LED screens, effects and animation shows from 00:30 to 06:00 on 31 December.

Other events include a New Year’s candle-making workshop for youth from 10:30 to 14:00 at Escaldes-Engordany’s youth space, part of the Jovent en Acció special Christmas programme running until 5 January with activities for ages 12-17. Ordino’s solidarity run *La Llufta* starts at 18:30 from Plaça Major, where participants donate new toys distributed via RTVA for Three Kings gifts. In Encamp’s sports and sociocultural complex, Lali Dance Factory stages a family dance show at 18:30, paired with children’s activities—temporary tattoos, woodworking and *Cinema 7D*—from 16:00 to 21:00.

New Year’s Eve options expand with Associació Balland’s night dance for 25 euros at Prat del Roure in Escaldes-Engordany on 31 December. On 1 January, the Orquestra Nacional Clàssica d’Andorra performs a New Year 2026 concert featuring Paris-Vienna classics at 19:00 in Andorra la Vella’s Centre de Congressos.

Exhibitions blend art, history and urbanism across Andorra. In La Massana, the Biblioteca Comunal shows Carles Pellejero’s illustrations from Joan Peruga’s *El museu de l’elefant*—adapted and scripted by Peruga for Editorial Andorra—until 5 January, plus *El Londres de Virginia Woolf* with Arnau Sánchez Campamà’s originals. The Comic Museum features Oscar Martin’s *Solo*, honouring his heroic character created by a Tom and Jerry artist, until 16 January.

Canillo’s Moto Museum—also called Espai Galobardes—displays Francesc Galobardes’ ink-and-reed drawings of Andorran Romanesque art until 31 December. Andorra la Vella’s Bici Lab Andorra presents *Ciutats a escala humana*, using Playmobil and projections to explore pedestrian-friendly urban growth, through 28 February. The Centre d’Art in Escaldes-Engordany hosts *Del néixer al renéixer: vivències a l’antic Egipte* with everyday artefacts from Barcelona’s Egyptian Museum, until 21 February. The government exhibition hall in Andorra la Vella runs *Pioners 1884-1954: l’Andorra dels primers fotògrafs* from national archives until 7 March.

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