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Grand Week (Semana Grande). San Sebastián. (Guipúzcoa - Gipuzkoa). Popular.
… In August San Sebastián lives its Grand Week of celebrations. These days of fiesta include cultural and sporting events, traditional games, regattas, “pelota” matches, fireworks, music, theatre, and a major series of bullfights in the Illumbe Bullring. …
Festivity | Guipúzcoa - Gipuzkoa
Misterio de Elche religious theatre. Elche. (Alicante - Alacant). Aug 11,2015.
… This religious representation has been designated Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. It is a lyric drama of medieval origins, that has been staged since the 13th century, one of the customary representations of the Assumption in Mediterranean Europe. The play is based on several tex…
Festivity | Alicante - Alacant
Cervantes Week. Alcalá de Henares. (Madrid). Literatura.
… The World Heritage City Alcalá de Henares , in Madrid , pays tribute over the course of a whole week to its most illustrious figure: Miguel de Cervantes, the author of “The ingenious knight Don Quixote of La Mancha”. Cervantes Week takes place around the writer’s date of birth (9 October 1547) and i…
Festivity | Madrid
Virgen de Gracia Pilgrimage. San Lorenzo de El Escorial. (Madrid). Sep 13,2015.
… Procession of the Virgin of Gracia of San Lorenzo de El Escorial. Procession around the image of the Virgin of Gracia with traditional dances, carts, religious events, etc. The processional events begin in the morning of the second Sunday of September with the image of the Virgen leaving for the her…
Festivity | Madrid
New Year’s Eve. Madrid. Dec 31,2015.
… One of the most important celebrations of the Christmas period is New Year’s Eve – a special dinner where the last night of the year usually becomes one big party. As the clock strikes twelve, signalling the arrival of the New Year, families in Spain come together to eat 12 lucky grapes. Tradition h…
Festivity | Madrid
Easter week in Alcalá de Henares. Alcalá de Henares. (Madrid). Mar 29,2015. Religión.
… The World Heritage city of Alcalá de Henares in the region of Madrid celebrates this religious festival with as many as eight processions by associations of penitents throughout its historic quarter. This is one of the city's most traditional festivities and its origins date back to the 16th century…
Festivity | Madrid
Moors and Christians Fiesta. La Villajoyosa. (Alicante - Alacant). Jul 24,2015. Popular.
… For eight days, the whole town steps back in time to hold a spectacular re-enactment of a battle fought in 1538. The festival of Moors and Christians is the biggest event of the year in Villajoyosa. The festival has been held for over 250 years in honour of Santa Marta (St. Martha) and commemorates …
Festivity | Alicante - Alacant
Cante de las Minas Festival. Unión, La. (Murcia). Aug 05,2015. Flamenco.
… La Unión, in Murcia, is the setting for the world's most important annual flamenco festival: the "Cante de las Minas" Festival. Song, dance and guitar playing are the three disciplines in an event packed with authentic flamenco, which backs upcoming young artists, and which also features consolidate…
Festivity | Murcia
Festival of Moors and Christians in Murcia. Murcia.
… This is a great theatrical performance where the actors are archetypal Murcia locals themselves. The streets are used as stages to celebrate the patron saint of the town and to commemorate the times of the Reconquest. Most of the acts take place in the Mediaeval Encampment in San Esteban garden. Alt…
Festivity | Murcia
Fiesta of the Cuadrillas</i> in Barranda.. Caravaca de la Cruz. (Murcia). Jan 31,2016. Popular.
… Every year on the last Sunday in January, the town of Barranda in Murcia celebrates this festivity in which numerous bands, known as 'cuadrillas', sing and perform in the streets. A total of around 15 groups from all over Spain take part in the event. Throughout the morning the groups take up their …
Festivity | Murcia
… The Murcia fair is held during September, with different festive events in a range of venues throughout the city. The fair offers a wide array of activities which take place in spaces such as the Huertos del Malecón fairground and in the Plaza Romea square. There are a multitude of amusements, a cat…
Festivity | Murcia
Carnival. Águilas. (Murcia). Popular.
… Fiestas of the Carnival of Águilas. Full of colour from the processions of masks, groups, the releasing of the 'la musona' and the 'egg battle' between the followers of Don Carnaval and Doña Cuaresma. …
Festivity | Murcia
