Fiestas Costa Tropical East
Fiestas in The Eastern Costa Tropical Area of Spain
February February March/April May June July August

2nd

Fiestas de la Candelaria

28th

Día de Andalucía & bicycle's day

 

 Easter - Semana Santa

Dia de la Cruz

The Day of the Cross, on May 3rd

Fiesta of San Juan

23rd & 24th

Fiesta en Honor de Santa Ana

25th & 26th July

First weekend Fiesta La Virgen del Rosario.

14th, 15th & 16th Fiestas en Honor de la Virgen del Carmen


On this night the Spanish have a special bonfire night, when villagers, neighbours and visitors are invited to taste all sorts of local food and wine. Meats and other products are donated by the villagers and a huge communal barbeque is enjoyed by everyone. Part of the celebration is the wine competition, with prizes for the best three wines of the year.

Andalusia Day is celebrated on February 28, to commemorate the date of the successful autonomy referendum vote. There are official acts organized to commemorate the day. It is also celebrated the bicycle's day, in which many people make a route around the city riding a bicycle. There are raffles and performances after the route.

The Easter week processions compete with one another in luxury and splendour. The parades leave each of the town´s churches to wind slowly around the streets, with their lifelike statues of Christ on the Cross and his mother the Virgin Mary in mourning. The processions are organised by the religious brotherhoods, representing guilds of tradesmen or other groups. They spend all year long preparing the elaborate costumes and decorations. This is a serious fiesta and fireworks are not permitted. Drinking and celebrating is still frowned upon by many.

 The neighborhoods decks out their streets and squares with crosses made out of fresh flowers, fans, shells and farm tools. All of the crosses contain a symbolic pair of open scissors ready to cut out any possible aesthetic defect. It has its roots in a pagan ritual to celebrate the end of winter and it coincides with the summer solstice.

Fiesta of San Juan in June when many locals (and a few well oiled foreigners!) plunge into the sea at midnight.

Fiestas in Honour of San Juan,in Castillo de Baños and La Guapa, Polopos region.

Fiesta in Honour of Santa Ana, en la Haza del Trigo, Polopos Region

First weekend of August

Fiestas en Honor de la Virgen del Rosario, in Polopos.

Fiestas en Honor de la Virgen del Carmen. This is the big fiesta in La Mamola. La Virgen del Carmen is the protectress of seamen, and at the end of day on July 16th the towns and fishing villages of the coast parade their statues of her by the water, and set sail in gaily adorned boats, accompanied by the blowing of horns and bursts of fireworks in the night sky.
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