Famous Spanish Festival And Celebrations

Famous Spanish Festival And Celebrations

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Spain has many colourful and exciting festivals that happen the whole year round in any part of the country.

The La Tomatina or the Tomato Fight festival in Spain happens during august in Bunol, Valencia. This festival is a very famous food fight where more than 30,000 tourists go to every year to participate. People throw at each other more than 240,000 pounds of tomatoes as the highlight of this festival. The San Sebastian Drum Festival or Tamborrada de San Sebastian as it is locally known is a parade of drummers that march to through the streets of San Sebastian in the Basque Country during the first night of the first day of January. The next day, the children participate in the celebration of Tamborrada de Infantil or the Child Drummer's Ceremony.

La Endiablada is a festival that originates during the ancient times in the village of Cuenca in Castilla y La Mancha. It is celebrated during February and young boys dress up as devils wearing brightly colored pants, jackets, paper hats and cow bells are tied to their waists. The paper hats will be replaced later on by cardboard bishop mitres where they run through the streets and dance their way into the church and then pretend to wash the statue of San Blas. After "washing" the statue they will continue the procession around the streets with the sound of the cow bells providing their music.

The Fallas de San Jose of Valencia is another fiesta that originates from the Middle Ages This is usually during march and it is only later in the middle of the last century that it has acquired its unique personality that made it famous today. Night time processions are held around the towns of Valencia in honor of the Our Lady of the Forsaken. The Nit del Foc or the Night of Fire made it famous because this is when the fallas are burned.

The April Fair or Feria de Abril of Sevilla in Andalucía is held a few days after Holy Week and it is the most frenzied and colourful fiesta which happens all day long. The flamenco singers called "cantaores" and the "bailaoras" or dancers take to the streets and dance and sing to their heart's content. The Real de la Feria is filled many colourful tents decorated with a multitude of wreaths and paper lanterns that make a beautiful backdrop outlined by the sky.

The fiestas will not be complete without tasting their food, never leave without tasting Spain's acorn cured hams and Serrano hams.

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