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Barcelona-Sitges International Period Cars Rally. Sitges. (Barcelona). Deportes. Motor.
… Pre-1924 museum vehicles participate in this unusual rally. This classic car rally has been held since 1959 and takes place between Barcelona and Sitges. The event attracts genuine museum pieces made between 1900 and 1924. The winners of the contest are not the fastest ones to complete the circuit b…
Festivity | Barcelona
Tamborada (drum festival). Hellín. (Albacete). Mar 20,2016.
… The pinnacle of the Easter week in Hellín, Albacete province, is the Tamborada (drum-playing). This is the most important fiesta on the town calendar, when up to 20,000 drums start playing, the beginning of an uproar that will continue over several days. Midnight on Maundy Thursday sees the most imp…
Festivity | Albacete
Night of the Drums. Mula. (Murcia). Mar 22,2016. Popular.
… In Mula, Murcia , on the evening of Easter Tuesday, the star attraction is the drum, and the drumming doesn’t stop until well into Wednesday. This is the Night of the Drums, a traditional festival where everyone who has a drum and a black tunic can take part. The banging of the drums begins at midni…
Festivity | Murcia
… Every year on Good Friday the town of Castro Urdiales, in Cantabria, recreates the last years of the life of Jesus Christ throughout its streets, in which hundreds of its citizens take part. The festival is a re-enactment of the Passion of Jesus Christ, in which every last detail is carefully planne…
Festivity | Cantabria
Carthaginians and Romans Fiesta. Cartagena. (Murcia). Sep 18,2015.
… Fiestas that recreate the conquest of Cartagena by the Roman Escipion. A landing commemorates the capture of the city in 209 BC by the Roman troops of Escipion, marking a festive week in which alternate days are devoted to one or the other band. The wedding of Hannial and Himilce orthe day of the Ro…
Festivity | Murcia
Easter week in Toledo. Toledo. Mar 20,2016.
… The Easter brotherhoods show outstanding ability moving their statues through the narrow streets of the city. The Easter week celebrations in Toledo are characterised by the solemn nature of the processions. Special mention should be made of those that take place on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. …
Festivity | Toledo
Easter Week in Cuenca. Cuenca. Mar 20,2016. Religión.
… Easter week is one of the most spectacular and emotional fiestas here. Cuenca’s unique urban layout, with its hills and narrow streets, make it a very special setting to celebrate Easter week. These traditions date back to the 17th century, when the first Easter brotherhoods were founded. More than …
Festivity | Cuenca
Easter week in Ciudad Real. Ciudad Real. Mar 20,2016.
… Participatory, austere and with great artistic beauty. The Easter week celebrations in Ciudad Real are of great artistic and cultural interest. They have a marked Baroque style and more than 15,000 people, especially women and young people, take part in the festivities. Maundy Thursday and Good Frid…
Festivity | Ciudad Real
Religious Music Week. Cuenca. Mar 20,2016.
… This festival is an opportunity to enjoy all the emotion of the processions in addition to musical pieces performed by world-class orchestras and choirs. Cuenca Religious Music Week coincides with the Easter week celebrations. Every year it features important international orchestras and soloists. T…
Festivity | Cuenca
Easter Week in Ocaña. Ocaña. (Toledo). Mar 20,2016.
… Ocaña, in the province of Toledo, has been holding its Easter week celebrations in the streets of the town for 400 years. Its processions stand out for their order and silence, as well as for their colour. Especially noteworthy is the Good Friday procession – it has moving statues. Easter week is on…
Festivity | Toledo
Stations of the Cross in Easter week. Mérida. (Badajoz). Mar 24,2016. Popular.
… This thrilling procession takes place in the early hours of Easter Wednesday to Thursday in the city of Mérida (Extremadura ). The celebration begins with a procession in which the Medieval image of the Christ of the “O” is borne from the Procathedral of Santa María to the Roman Amphitheatre. This m…
Festivity | Badajoz
Easter Week in Crevillent. Crevillent. (Alicante - Alacant). Mar 20,2016.
… Easter week in Crevillent (Alicante province), is a fusion of art, popular devotion, religion and tradition. A multitude of events fill the town during these days, although the crucial moment in the celebration comes on Good Friday. In the early hours, cornets can be heard playing “dianas”. These me…
Festivity | Alicante - Alacant
