Spain Activities: Festivals

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Spain has a lot of local festivals that are worth going to.

• Málaga's Semana Santa (Easter) - worth to see. From Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. Lots of procession accour within that week.

• Córdoba en Mayo (Cordoba in May) - great month to visit the Southern city

• Las Cruces (1st week in May) - big flower-made crosses embellishing public squares in the city center, where you will also find at night music and drinking and lot of people having fun!

• Festival de Patios - one of the most interesting cultural exhibitions, 2 weeks when some people open doors of their houses to show their old Patios full of flowers

• Cata del Vino Montilla-Moriles - great wine tasting in a big tent in the city center during one week in May

• Fallas - Valencia's festival in March - burning the "fallas" is a must

• Málaga's August Fair - flamenco dancing, drinking sherry, bullfights

• San Fermines - July in Pamplona, Navarra.

• Fiesta de San Isidro - May 15 in Madrid - a celebration of Madrid's patron saint.

• Holy week - best in Seville and the rest of Andalusia; also interesting in Valladolid

• Carnival - best in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Cádiz

• Cabalgata de los Reyes Magos (Three wise men parade) - on the eve of epiphany, 5th of January, the night before Spanish kids get their Christmas presents, it rains sweets and toys in every single town and city

• La Tomatina - a giant tomato fight in Buñol

• Moros y Cristianos (Moors and Christians, mostly found in Southeastern Spain during spring time) - parades and "battles" remembering the fights of medieval ages

• 85 festivals in Galicia throughout the year from wine to wild horses.