Fiesta del Orujo de Potes
The medieval mountain village of Potes, gateway to the Picos de Europa, fills with the warm scent of distilling orujo for a three-day fiesta declared of National Tourist Interest, with tastings, craft stalls and a celebration of Liébana's ancient spirits tradition.
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"In its 115th edition, Laredo's Batalla de Flores sees monumental floats clad in up to 180,000 fresh flowers, each carnation pressed on by hand in the hours before the parade, in a dazzling spectacle born in 1908 to evoke a flower-strewn naval battle."
Batalla de Flores de Laredo
"In its XXIV edition, Los Corrales de Buelna re-enacts the last resistance of the Cantabrian tribes against Rome, with 1,500 participants, thirteen Celtic tribes, thirteen Roman legions, a reconstructed Roman camp and Cantabrian village, and the only Fiesta of International Tourist Interest in Cantabria."
Guerras Cántabras
"On the first Sunday of each year, the hamlet of Silió in the Molledo valley is taken over by dozens of costumed characters in cattle hides, rags and corn leaves who parade, defend the village boundaries, recite satirical couplets and symbolically capture a bear in a masquerade of pre-Roman origin declared of National Tourist Interest."
La Vijanera
"Cabezón de la Sal hosts the regional Día de Cantabria with traditional music, artisan and ceramics fairs, ox-draught competitions, bolos championships, a livestock market and gastronomic stalls, making it the most concentrated celebration of Cantabrian rural identity of the year."
Día de Cantabria
"Comillas, a village of Modernista architecture and Gaudi's El Capricho, marks its patronal week with a donkey race, Cantabrian bagpipe contest, a grand popular meal and the procession of the Santo Cristo accompanied by gaiteros."
Fiestas del Santo Cristo del Amparo
"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
"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
"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