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All Saints' Fair

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:41:51 +0100

For more than 600 years, Cocentaina in Alicante (Region of Valencia) has hosted this agricultural and cattle fair which every year attracts over 350,000 people.

Orujo Festival in Potes

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:48:42 +0100

This is one of the most traditional festivals celebrated in Potes, Cantabria (in northern Spain, in the heart of the Picos de Europa mountains), and every year attracts thousands of people who come to enjoy this typical liqueur produced using time-honoured methods.

The Day of the Holy Innocents

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:20:30 +0100

This is one of the most popular and entertaining Christmas traditions in Spain. December 28 is the day when everyone is allowed to play practical jokes and when it is customary to buy joke articles in Christmas markets like the one in the Plaza Mayor square in Madrid.

Marian Jubilee Year of the Virgin of El Rocío

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:55:41 +0100

Huelva, in southern Spain, celebrates the Marian Jubilee Year of the Virgin of El Rocío, which was granted by Pope Benedict XVI in recognition of the famous Pilgrimage of El Rocío.

'Sexenni' in Morella

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:03:41 +0200

Every six years, the town of Morella, in Alicante, celebrates its festival in honour of the Virgen de Vallivana.

Festival of Moors and Christians in Murcia

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:10:56 +0200

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.

Renaissance Week

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:49:27 +0200

Medina del Campo, in Valladolid, is travelling back to the 15th and 16th centuries for a few days, to remember its heyday.

Bringing down of the Virgin of Los Reyes

Mon, 2 Jul 2012 14:35:28 +0200

On the first Saturday in July, every four years, the island of El Hierro, in the Canary Islands, celebrates their most important festivity in which the Virgin of Los Reyes (patron saint of the island) is carried in procession down from the shrine to Villa de Valverde, for 28.7 km.

Living Passion in Castro Urdiales

Mon, 1 Apr 2013 13:07:36 +0200

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.

Medieval Festival in Briones

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 09:38:16 +0200

Almost 700 people are preparing their costumes and decking out the streets and the doorways of the noble homes in the historic quarter of Briones (La Rioja) in order to recreate the life of a Castilian town in the 14th century.