Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Opera Festival

The Pérez Galdós Theatre hosts the season of this musical event, promoted since 1967 by the association Amigos Canarios de la Ópera (ACO), in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The programme is made up of various operatic premieres and other pieces of great quality, with the attendance of leading national and international music figures. ...

Wicked, the musical

The play focuses on the untold story of the Witches of Oz, before the arrival of Dorothy. Beyond the visual aspect, this musical invites us to reflect on acceptance, the struggle for justice and identity. All this is accompanied by a wonderful soundtrack that includes songs such as “Defying Gravity” and “Popular”. ...

“Noche blanca” all night flamenco

The theme of the festival is the brotherhood of cultures, so great masters of singing and dancing are featured in the programme alongside acts from Japan and Portugal, as well as traditional Andalusian music and the sounds of the Sephardic culture. ...

"City of Úbeda" International Festival of Music and Dance

It is a prestigious musical event, and each weekend during the festival sees top quality concerts from orchestras and soloists alike. On the other days there is a range of activities such as the Children's Festival, the Chamber Music Season and, above all, the Music Fair, with various concerts held at different squares around the historic ...

Cycling: Quebrantahuesos

A year on, Sabiñánigo, a town in the north of Spain, province of Huesca, hosts “La Quebrantahuesos”, a tough cycling race in which several thousand cyclists from all over the world participate every year. An exciting test of endurance between several of the most demanding mountain passes in the Pyrenees.

Ibiza Yoga Week

The event offers a journey along the so-called Yoga Path, a series of activities that combine wellness practices with places steeped in history, identity and their own unique energy. Throughout the week, participants will enjoy sessions of yoga, breathwork, meditation and other activities focused on physical and emotional balance. ...

Arde Lucus

The Arde Lucus Festival aims to relive the founding of the city of Lugo by recreating its Roman past. Over three days, Lugo goes back to being Lucus Augusti, an important city in Roman Gallaecia full of all kinds of recreational and cultural activities. ...

Sant Joan

The summer solstice is traditionally a night of magic, spells and portents. Tarragona celebrates this date with street dancing, popular feasts and firecrackers until the early hours of the morning, and of course the rite of the bonfires which are lit symbolically at various points throughout the city with the 'Canigó flame' (the fire which is ...

Reading of the Song of Roland

This historic event of 778 is commemorated orally every year in this recreation. It is an original way to enjoy listening to one of the most beautiful epic poems of the period, which ultimately made the name of Roncesvalles famous all over Europe.

Sagrada Familia and Santísimo Cristo patron saint's day fiesta

La Vall d’Uixó, in Castellón, holds its patron saint’s fiestas in October, starting with the proclamation of the queen of the fiestas and her court. The programme of events includes: bullfights; sporting, cultural and musical activities; competitions; exhibitions of period cars; a medieval market; fireworks and open-air dances, along with ...

“Fiestas Juradas” of San Miguel Arcángel

The reenactments of the British disembarking on Gran Tarajal beach and the battle on Mount Tamasite, and the pilgrimage procession in honour of the saint, are the three most important moments in the Fiestas Juradas (sworn festival) of San Miguel Arcángel de Tuineje. ...

Asturcón Horse Festival

The festivities begin in the morning with an open-air mass, and continue throughout the day with a dance competition, brass bands, bagpipe bands and a communal meal laid on by a local social club. Then there is a display of riding and dressage, which includes marking all Asturcón colts born that year.

Autumn Fair

Madrid has a great bullfighting tradition that has made its season into one of the most important in the world. The Autumn Fair, with a programme of six bullfights, stands out among the city’s most important bullfighting festivals, along with the San Isidro Fair and the Madrid Region Mini-fair.

'Cazuelica' and wine week

For several days, the city’s bars and taverns are offering the public, for a fixed price, delicious mini-versions of hearty soups and casseroles served in traditional earthenware bowls and accompanied by wines from Navarre, specially chosen to complement each dish. ...

Wine-harvesting festival in Cangas del Narcea

The streets are filled with stalls selling crafts and traditional products. Visitors can participate in several of the main festive events, including a dramatisation of the carrying of the grapes in typical carts, the traditional pressing of the grapes by stamping with the feet, and visits to local vineyards.

Feast day of Our Lady of Rosario de Agüimes

This festival, which takes place in the town of Agüimes in Gran Canaria, attracts a multitude of visitors each year, as it brings one of the oldest Canary Island traditions back to life. ...

Don Juan in Alcalá

Alcalá de Henares has been hosting this event since 1984. The central figure in the play is Don Juan, the universal personification of the seducer. The staging takes place in the historic city centre, in the open area known as Huerta del Palacio Arzobispal, where thousands of people come every year to see the various production and directing ...

Running of the bulls in Ampuero

Grape harvest festival Montilla

The celebration starts off with the treading of the grapes harvested from the local vineyards. This “primer mosto” (first pressing) is an offering to the Virgen de las Viñas. As well as the treading of the grapes in true traditional style, throughout the festival there are also different competitions related to oenology.

Traditional bull-running

Traditional bull-running takes place during the festivities in honour of San Antolín, and the streets are filled with fun and music. The bulls are taken from the countryside to the town entrance, and there the young men run in front of the bulls through the streets of Medina del Campo. The races are very exciting to watch. ...

Feast of the Holy Martyrs of Valdecuna

Hundreds of pilgrims attend the celebration, which consists of arriving at the San Cosme y San Damián Shrine on foot to ask them for good health. After the High Mass at 12 noon, the “Puya del Ramu” (“bid for the branch”) takes place when the local bread, known as “escanada” is auctioned. ...

Murcia Fair

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 cattle fair, a pilgrimage, and a Festival of Moors and Christians. ...

Festival of Moors and Christians in Murcia

Most of the events take place at the Medieval Camp, which is located in the San Esteban garden and serves as a meeting place where people can enjoy the festive atmosphere and sample local produce. The grand parade is held on Saturday, in which the groups that make up the Moorish and Christian sides parade through the city's neighbourhoods. ...

Virgen de Gracia Pilgrimage

The processional events begin in the morning of the second Sunday of September with the image of the Virgen leaving for the hermitage, transported on a 'serrana' cart richly decorated with garlands and accompanied by thousands of pilgrims reciting the Aurora Rosary, culminating with the Ángelus before the Cross of the pilgrims; once the image ...

"Fiesta del Cordero" (Lamb Festival)

Every year more and more people gather to taste spit-roasted lamb in the field known as Prau Llagüezos. A group of friends started to build a mountain refuge in this spot in 1965, and to celebrate they spent the day roasting and eating lamb. That is the origin of this festival, which has been held every year ever since. ...

Vaqueira Festival

The festivity is dedicated to the vaqueiros or cattle-herders (an Asturian group with deeply-rooted traditions and ancestral customs, devoted primarily to migratory cattle herding). ...

Olive and olive oil sessions

Many activities including exhibitions, conferences, tasting sessions, workshops and competitions, as well as music and folklore, complete this renowned event.

Baptism of the Child Jesus in Palencia

It is performed in honour of the Cofradía del Dulce Nombre del Niño Jesús (Brotherhood of the Sweet Name of the Child Jesus), which was founded in the 16th century in the area surrounding what was formerly the Jewish quarter of the city. ...

Fiestas of San Antón and the International “Noche de San Antón” Urban Race in Jaén

Fiesta of Sant Antoni Abat

An enormous bonfire (“la foguera”) is burned in honour of the saint on 16 January, but preparations start on 7 December when the townspeople begin piling up firewood. In fact, the bonfire is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s largest bonfire. The religious celebrations are held on 17 January. ...

Bajada y Subida de Nuestra Señora de la Concepción: Procession of the Virgin of “Los Pegotes”

The first references to Nuestra Señora de la Concepción date from the 16th century, when a shrine with that name was built. In 1745 it was agreed that this ritual of taking the Virgin down and up the hill should become a tradition. ...

Festival of San Martín, or the Humanitarians’ Festival

The festival is organised by the San Martín Humanitarian Association, and begins with the traditional sung mass of San Martín, accompanied by the sound of the typical Asturian bagpipes. ...

Alriza Fallas celebrations

Huge allegoric papier mâché statues are consumed by fire on the night of San José. This is the culminating moment of the celebrations, where you will also come across the acrid smell of gunpowder from the mascletás (a spectacle of firecrackers), music bands, orchestras, paella and parades with traditional costumes.

Human chess

The city of Xàbia-Jávea, Alicante, celebrates a very unique theatrical performance in summer: Human chess. This unique initiative involves boys and girls from local schools, aged between 6 and 14, who bring various characters to life. Based on a chess game, each year a different story is told with a plot, scenery and musical accompaniment. ...

Festival of the Vaquilla

The event recreates the driving of the cattle (“vaquillas”) through the streets of the town, but in a uniquely distinctive way. The animals are not real, but artificial, and are created out of structures decorated with coloured silk ribbons, silk shawls and horns which are displayed with great gusto by all the participating groups as they ...

Las Carantoñas de Acehúche

The fiesta is held over two days on or around 20 January, the feast day of Saint Sebastian. It reenacts the moment when wild animals received the saint after his martyrdom, with several key figures in the ceremonies. ...