As San Lucas

"The highlight of these festivities in the medieval town of Betanzos is the fluvial romeria to Os Caneiros, where flower-decked boats carry merrymakers up the River Mandeo for a riverside feast, followed by the ascent of the world's largest paper balloon."

Festas de San Roque

"Ribadavia's entire medieval Jewish quarter is transformed into a living 15th-century scene for three days, with jousting, craft markets, Sephardic music, and costumed townspeople in one of Galicia's finest declared heritage festivals."

Festa da Istoria

"The village of Cea, home of Galicia's most prized PGI-protected round loaves, celebrates its ancient bread-baking tradition with traditional wood-fired oven demonstrations, dough-kneading contests and mass tastings of the bread that has been traded across Galicia for centuries."

Festa do Pan de Cea

"Galicia's most mystical pilgrimage, ruled by the saying that whoever does not come here alive will come here dead, draws devotees from across the region to this clifftop chapel above the Atlantic on the Feast of the Nativity of Mary."

Romería de San Andrés de Teixido

"Muxía's most important festival brings pilgrims and locals to the dramatic headland sanctuary of the Virgin of the Boat, where religious processions, the blessing of fishing boats and traditional Galician music mark one of the most atmospheric coastal romerías on the Camino de Fisterra."

Nosa Señora da Barca de Muxía

"One of Galicia's great maritime romerias, pilgrims converge on the wave-lashed sanctuary at the tip of the Costa da Morte where the Virgin is said to have arrived by stone boat, ending the Camino for many who walk to Muxia from Santiago."

Romaría de Nosa Señora da Barca

"Puerto Lumbreras, an inland Murcia town on the ancient road to Andalusia, marks two separate patron saint feast days spread across summer and autumn with popular community celebrations in its market-town square."

Fiestas Patronales de Puerto Lumbreras

"Calasparra, the Segura valley rice-growing town famous for its protected denomination rice, marks two separate patron feast days in summer and early autumn with processions, popular meals and traditional community events."

Fiestas Patronales de Calasparra

"One of Spain's most photogenic walled villages, Puertomingalvo fills its steep medieval lanes with a week of summer fiestas, combining communal celebration with the extraordinary backdrop of a hilltop castle and an almost entirely intact medieval streetscape."

Fiestas de Verano de Puertomingalvo

"The fiestas of San Roque in this tiny Alpujarran white village, perched high above the Poqueira gorge, bring a fiesta atmosphere to one of Granada's most dramatically sited hamlets."

Fiestas de San Roque de Soportújar

"The small village of Arens de Lledó, perched above the Matarraña river in Teruel's little-visited Matarraña comarca, honours three patron saints together in a traditional summer fiesta with processions, folk activities and communal meals."

Fiestas Patronales de San Hipólito, la Virgen del Refugio y Ntra. Sra. de la Asunción

"A multi-day medieval fair set in one of Teruel's most beautiful and intact historic villages, filling La Fresneda's honey-stone streets and arcaded plaza with artisans, musicians and period pageantry."

Mercado Medieval de La Fresneda