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The Spanish love their feria's and festivals it will not be unusal whilst you are out and about on your travels to come across one in the local white villages. Most of them are either religious festivals or revolve around food and drink. They are guaranteed to be colourful, lively and finish off with a firework display.
Holidays & Fiesta's
Fiesta's (bank holidays) everything is closed on these days
January 1st New Years Day
January 6th The Three Kings Festival
February 28th Andalucia Day
March 24th Maundy Thursday
March 25th Good Friday
May 1st May Day
August 15th Assumption Day
October 12th Hispanidad
November 1st All Saints Day
December 6th Constitution Day
December 8th Day of the Imaculate Conception
December 25th Christmas Day
Andalucia Day
The 28th February is Andalucia Day and the village streets are decorated with green and white bunting - the colours of Andalucia there are street parties, flamenco dancing and the fiesta can run all through February
Easter
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.
San Isidro
15th May. San Isidro is the patron saint of the farmers, and many villages celebrate his day with a procesion through the fields and a fiesta, as well as agricultural trade shows.
St Johns Feast
This is held in the evening on the 24th of June and is celebrated on the beachs along the coast with bonfires, food and drink and a fireworks display. At midnight it is traditional to dip you feet in the see.
La Virgin del Carmen
La Virgin del Carmen in the protectress of seamen, and at the end of the day on July 16th the towns and fishing villages of the coast parade their statues of her by the water, and set sail in elaborately adorned boats, accompanied by the blowing of horns and finishing with an elaberate fireworks display.
Its not unusual to come across a feria anytime of the year in any of the white villages and costal town. They are always colourful, lively and worth visiting.