Festa Major de Perafita

"The remote Pallars Sobirà village of Alins stages its Festa Major alongside the Baixada de Falles, an ancient fire custom in which blazing pine torches are carried down the mountain at nightfall, a tradition rooted in pre-Christian solstice rites and listed among Catalonia's most spectacular popular customs."

Festa Major i Baixada de Falles d'Alins

"Albanyà, a tiny village in the Alt Empordà foothills near the Alta Garrotxa natural area, holds its intimate Festa Major in summer with the traditional mix of sardanes, gegants and outdoor communal activities that define the Catalan village festivity."

Festa Major d'Albanyà

"The capital of Alta Ribagorça in the Pyrenean foothills, Pont de Suert holds its Festa Major with cercaviles of gegants i capgrossos, sardana dancing, verbenes and a riverside old-town setting that perfectly captures Catalan mountain popular culture."

Festa Major de Pont de Suert

"This small village of the Conca de Barberà celebrates its Festa Major of Sant Cristòfol, the patron of drivers, with a programme combining community gastronomy, religious tradition, sardana music and the convivial atmosphere of the Catalan village square."

Festa Major de Sant Cristòfol de Vallfogona de Riucorb

"Guissona, built on the Roman town of Iesso in the Segarra comarca, hosts an annual Roman market with legionary reenactors, period crafts and Roman cuisine in the archaeological park, making the site's Ibero-Roman layers accessible and vivid for all ages."

Mercado Romano de Iesso de Guissona

"In the valleys of Alta Ribagorça, including the UNESCO-listed Romanesque churches area of the Vall de Boí, the ancient fire custom of the Falles sees blazing torches carried down from the mountain summits at nightfall, one of the most visually spectacular fire traditions in the Pyrenees."

Bajada de Fallas en la Alta Ribagorça

"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