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

"Esterri d'Àneu, the main village of the high Pallars Sobirà valley, hosts Esbaiola't, an annual folk and roots music festival set in the Pyrenean mountain landscape that brings together traditional Catalan and international folk groups in an intimate outdoor setting."

Festival Esbaiola't d'Esterri d'Àneu

"This small Huelva village hosts a celebrated regional contest dedicated entirely to the Fandango de Huelva, a distinctive form of flamenco unique to this province, with the finest voices from across Andalusia competing on an outdoor stage across three weeks of summer evenings."

Certamen Regional del Fandango de Huelva

"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

"Set among the vineyards of the Duero valley, Tudela de Duero hosts nightly encierros and dawn toro de alba runs through its narrow streets across five days of patronal festivities combining bullfighting tradition with local wine and gastronomy."

Encierros y Fiestas de Tudela de Duero

"On the feast of the Assumption, masked figures dressed in red known as 'Diablucos' accompany the village procession in Helechosa de los Montes, a centuries-old folk custom from the remote La Siberia extremena that mingles devilry with Marian devotion."

Los Diablucos de Helechosa de los Montes

"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

"Barlovento's patronal fiesta is crowned by its Batalla de Lepanto, a spectacular Bien de Interés Cultural re-enactment of the 1571 naval battle performed by villagers with wooden ships, period costumes and cannon-fire in the village square, one of the most theatrical folk customs in the Canaries."

Fiestas Patronales de Nuestra Señora del Rosario y Batalla de Lepanto