Fiesta de Santa Bárbara

"A four-day Renaissance fair evoking the 16th-century rivalry between Emperor Charles V and the Comunero rebels, staged with period costumes, artisan stalls and living history in the historic market town that witnessed the signing of Isabella I's will."

Feria Imperiales y Comuneros, Mercado Renacentista de Medina del Campo

"At the foot of its spectacular wine-castle hilltop, Peñafiel's patronal fiestas combine urban bull-running through medieval streets, live music in the Plaza del Coso and the proud Ribera del Duero winemaking culture of the surrounding Valladolid comarca."

Fiestas Patronales de Peñafiel

"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

"Deep in the heart of Ribera del Duero wine country, this small Valladolid village hosts its summer patronal fiesta with encierros, verbenas and communal meals set against a landscape of ancient limestone bodegas and vine-covered hillsides."

Fiestas Patronales de Quintanilla de Onésimo

"One of the most complete surviving medieval festival cycles in Spain, centred on the solemn Ofertorio procession in traditional costume and the next-morning performance of La Loa, an ancient auto sacramental in which the archangel Michael defeats a seven-headed serpent representing the deadly sins."

Diagosto - Fiestas Patronales de la Virgen de la Asunción

"The ancient mudejar brick castle of Coca, birthplace of Emperor Theodosius, forms the unforgettable backdrop to this traditional urban bull-run through the village streets, one of the most scenically dramatic encierros in all of Castile."

Encierro Urbano de Coca

"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

"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

"On the Feast of the Assumption, the people of Olvera accompany their canonically crowned patron Virgin from the hilltop town down to her sanctuary in a centuries-old open-air pilgrimage."

Fiestas Patronales de la Virgen de los Remedios