Feria Internacional del Ajo

"This small Alcarria Conquense village marks the Assumption with four days of traditional patron saint celebrations in the high-summer landscape of the Cuenca hills."

Fiestas en Honor a la Virgen de la Asunción

"The hamlet of Bascuñana de San Pedro holds its annual patron festival around the Assumption with two days of communal celebration in the Alcarria hills."

Fiestas en Honor a la Inmaculada Concepción

"Alcogujate, one of the smallest villages in Cuenca's Alcarria, celebrates its patron Santa Tecla each third August Saturday with the intimate charm that only a village fiesta of a few dozen neighbours can offer."

Fiestas en Honor a la Virgen de Santa Tecla

"Declared a Fiesta of National Tourist Interest, this ancient romeria draws the whole village to the Gothic sanctuary of Nuestra Señora de las Virtudes for a barefoot procession, sung prayer and an all-night vigil unique in the Campo de Montiel."

Romería de Nuestra Señora de las Virtudes

"The tiny village of Canalejas del Arroyo comes alive for two August days to celebrate its patron San Mamés with a classic rural Manchego fiesta of procession, dancing and communal feasting."

Fiestas en Honor a San Mamés

"The secluded village of Leganiel in the Alcarria Conquense celebrates its Cristo de la Luz each third August weekend with the processions, music and communal meals that define the Cuenca summer fiesta calendar."

Fiestas en Honor al Santísimo Cristo de la Luz

"Every Assumption night this white hilltop village in the Axarquia opens its plaza to free-flowing local wine, folk music and dancing under the stars in one of the most atmospheric harvest nights on the Malaga coast hinterland."

La Noche del Vino

"Periana, a small Axarquian village that leads Spain in peach cultivation, dedicates three August days to its famous peaches with free tastings, traditional music by pandas de verdiales and a market of local agricultural produce."

Fiesta del Melocotón

"Montilla's harvest festival, declared of Tourist Interest, centres on the traditional Pisa de la Uva grape-treading, an offering of must to the Virgen de las Viñas, equestrian displays at the municipal ring, and a wine tunnel where visitors can taste over a hundred references of the local Montilla-Moriles DO for a token fee."

Fiesta de la Vendimia

"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

"Every first Saturday of September this tiny Axarquian village whitewashes its facades, fills the streets with old farming tools and life-size costumed figures, and distributes thousands of litres of ice-cold ajoblanco almond soup to visitors, closing the night with a great bonfire and flamenco at the Noche de las Candelas."

Fiesta del Ajoblanco

"Bollullos, heart of the Condado de Huelva wine DO, throws a five-day harvest festival with grape treading, wine blessings, flamenco nights and open bodegas in the town that produces some of Andalusia's most underrated white wines."

Fiestas de la Vendimia