Viking Festival of Catoira (Galician: Romaría viquinga de Catoira) is a secular festival which has been celebrated in Catoira, Spain, every first Sunday...
8 KB (836 words) - 18:56, 19 April 2024
important celebrations include: the Viking Festival of Catoira, held on the first Sunday in August (Declared of International Tourist Interest), the...
3 KB (161 words) - 12:28, 12 January 2024
The festival of San Fermín is a week-long, traditional celebration held annually in the city of Pamplona, Navarre, Spain. The celebrations start at noon...
24 KB (2,520 words) - 15:17, 14 July 2024
The Viking Age (about 800–1050 CE) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonising, conquest...
146 KB (17,773 words) - 00:55, 22 July 2024
La Tomatina (category Festivals in Spain)
however, the festival has a ticketed event with a capacity of 20,000 participants. La Tomatina Festival started the last Wednesday of August in 1945...
15 KB (1,624 words) - 14:11, 18 June 2024
Galicia (Spain) (redirect from Politics of Galicia)
form of the façade of the cathedral. Romería Vikinga de Catoira ("Viking Festival of Catoira"), the first Sunday in August, is a secular festival that...
152 KB (16,300 words) - 14:04, 9 July 2024
the form of the façade of the cathedral. Romería Vikinga de Catoira ("Viking Festival of Catoira"), first Sunday in August, is a secular festival that has...
15 KB (1,908 words) - 22:18, 25 April 2024
(London: Bloomsbury, 2015), pp. 65-78. "Romaría Vikinga (Viking Festival) - Catoira". Catoira: Catoira Town Hall. 13 September 2017. Retrieved 31 August 2022...
27 KB (3,532 words) - 02:29, 11 April 2024
March 2016. Pilgrimage of the Rocío The Viking Pilgrimage of Catoira Archived 2010-10-12 at the Wayback Machine BOE núm. 276 of November 18, 2002.[permanent...
40 KB (1,852 words) - 23:49, 24 May 2024
Valencia Fallas (category Patronal festivals in Spain)
in Valencian) festival was added to UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage of humanity list on 30 November 2016. Each neighbourhood of the city has an...
31 KB (3,602 words) - 10:30, 22 June 2024
For the duration of the fair, the fairgrounds and a vast area on the far bank of the Guadalquivir River are totally covered in rows of casetas (individual...
8 KB (707 words) - 05:16, 17 April 2024
midst of the fall of the Franco regime to extol the true meaning of the festival as carnival, instead of "winter festivals", which is how the festival had...
48 KB (6,563 words) - 18:59, 19 April 2024
Hogueras de Alicante (redirect from Festival of San Juan)
Bonfires of Saint John (Spanish: Hogueras de San Juan, Valencian: Fogueres de Sant Joan) are a traditional and popular festival celebrated in the city of Alicante...
14 KB (1,889 words) - 08:35, 23 July 2024
del Sella (CODIS) on behalf of the Real Federación Española de Piragüismo [es], it holds the honorary distinction of Fiesta of International Tourist Interest...
4 KB (284 words) - 11:39, 12 March 2024
The Magdalena Festival is the main festivity of Castellón de la Plana, the capital city of the province of Castelló, in the Valencian Community, Spain...
22 KB (3,034 words) - 15:30, 12 May 2024
Holy Week in Seville (category Culture of Andalusia)
Week in Seville (Spanish: Semana Santa de Sevilla) is one of two biggest annual festivals in Seville, Andalusia, Spain, the other being the Feria de...
24 KB (3,079 words) - 02:34, 3 June 2024
second day of Pentecost to the Hermitage of El Rocío in the countryside of Almonte (Huelva), Andalucia, Spain, in honor of the Virgin of El Rocío. In...
12 KB (1,606 words) - 05:57, 9 June 2024
The International Habaneras and Polyphony Contest of Torrevieja (Spanish: Certamen Internacional de Habaneras y Polifonía de Torrevieja, Valencian: Certamen...
3 KB (218 words) - 17:52, 23 May 2024
Christians of Alcoy (in Valencian Moros i Cristians d'Alcoi, in Spanish Moros y Cristianos de Alcoy) is a popular festival which takes place in the city of Alcoy...
7 KB (892 words) - 11:13, 5 July 2024
Fiestas del Pilar (category Patronal festivals in Spain)
an annual festival celebrated in the city of Zaragoza, Aragon, in honour of the patron saint of the city, the Virgen del Pilar (Our Lady of the Pillar)...
11 KB (1,486 words) - 12:34, 4 March 2024
Holy Week in Málaga (redirect from Holy Week of Málaga)
commemoration of the Passion of Jesus in Málaga, Spain. It takes place during the last week of Lent, the week immediately before Easter. It is one of the city's...
48 KB (5,279 words) - 13:32, 16 May 2024
Albacete Fair (category Culture of Castilla–La Mancha)
Fair of Albacete is celebrated from 7–17 September in the city of Albacete, Spain, to honor the Virgen de Los Llanos, which translates to Virgin of the...
12 KB (1,432 words) - 08:26, 1 April 2024
The Carnival of Cádiz (Spanish: Carnaval de Cádiz) is one of the best-known carnivals in Spain. Its main characteristic is humor. Through sarcasm, mockery...
13 KB (1,680 words) - 08:32, 21 May 2024
Feria de Jerez (redirect from Fair of Jerez de la Frontera)
second week of May. It is the most important fair in the Province of Cádiz and is listed as one of the Fiestas of International Tourist Interest of Spain by...
5 KB (481 words) - 12:45, 24 June 2024
Spring Festival (Fiestas de Primavera de Murcia), whose main event is a parade of floats and men dressing in dresses that culminates with the burning of the...
2 KB (164 words) - 23:50, 24 May 2024
day -Saint Martha of Ortigueira's Day- on 29 July. Held during Saint Martha's day, Ortigueira's Festival of Celtic World (Festival Internacional do Mundo...
4 KB (410 words) - 13:35, 21 July 2024
Holy Week in Salamanca (section The Days of Holy Week)
pasos are the core of the festival. They consist of a wooden sculpture or group of sculptures that narrates a scene from the Passion of Christ. They are...
15 KB (1,755 words) - 23:02, 12 July 2023
Cascamorras (category European festival stubs)
The Fiesta de Cascamorras is a festival that takes place in the towns of Guadix and Baza in the province of Granada, Spain, annually on September 6. The...
3 KB (250 words) - 00:16, 10 July 2024
(Spanish pronunciation: [misˈteɾjo ˈðe ˈeltʃe]), in English the Mystery Play of Elche or Elche Mystery Play and in Catalan Misteri d'Elx (Valencian pronunciation:...
12 KB (1,571 words) - 08:29, 20 May 2024
Arde Lucus (category Festivals in Spain)
transl. Burn Lugo) is a festival celebrated in Lugo, Spain in the last weeks of June which revives the Roman and castro past of the city, and which emerged...
7 KB (688 words) - 18:55, 19 April 2024