Festa de Sant Llorenc de Balafia

"Alaró's ten-day patron saint festival, nestled beneath its hilltop castle in the Tramuntana foothills, is anchored by the iconic Cossiers dance, a centuries-old ritual involving six costumed dancers and a devil that winds through the village streets."

Festes de Sant Roc

"One of August's most anticipated Menorcan fiestas, Alaior's Sant Llorenç celebrations pack the town's whitewashed square with caixers dressed in black and white, the dramatic jaleo, and all-night street concerts and pomada bars."

Festes de Sant Llorenç

"A village-scale Menorcan fiesta just outside Maó with a distinctly local flavour: the Saturday night jaleo, the Casino yard gathering on Sunday lunchtime, and an unhurried community intimacy that bigger town fiestas rarely match."

Festes de Sant Climent

"A rare surviving celebration of the Mallorcan art of glosa, where improvisational poets (glosadors) trade witty, satirical verses in the village square in a living oral tradition that has been part of Mallorcan rural culture for centuries."

Fira del Glosat

"One of only three Menorcan fiestas held on the saint's actual feast day, Ferreries adds its own quirk to the jaleo calendar with the unique jaleo d'ases on the third day, a donkey procession alongside the traditional horse display."

Festes de Sant Bartomeu

"The end-of-summer patron saint fiesta of this pretty French-founded village closes August with gegant parades, the Toc de Tambor i Fabiol, double jaleos, and a colourful carrozas procession through the village's French-grid streets."

Festes de Sant Lluís

"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