Festa do Carneiro ao Espeto

"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

"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

"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

"This small village above the Viñuela reservoir celebrates its raisin-making tradition with two days of free tastings of sun-dried Moscatel raisins and local wine, craft stalls and live verdiales folk music."

Fiesta de la Pasa