Fiestas de San Buenaventura
Moraleja's century-old San Buenaventura fiestas are the most celebrated bull-running event in Extremadura, with brave-cattle encierros along 1,000 metres of streets backed by peñas, guiso de toro tastings and a week of village revelry.
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"Held in the monumental San Benito convent of the small Roman-bridge town of Alcantara, this internationally acclaimed classical theatre festival brings more than 150 performances of Golden Age drama to an extraordinary open-air stone stage."
Festival Internacional de Teatro Clasico de Alcantara
"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
"This small Badajoz village near the Portuguese border holds four days of traditional patron-saint fiestas honouring San Gines, blending religious procession with popular rural festivity along the Guadiana frontier."
Fiestas de San Gines
"In the village where Calderon de la Barca set his masterwork, a live open-air staging of 'El Alcalde de Zalamea' takes over the streets of Zalamea de la Serena each 22 August, bringing Golden Age drama back to its very source."
Alcalde de Zalamea - Teatro de Verano
"Montehermoso, the village famous for its distinctive traditional hat (la gorra), doubles its population for four days of San Bartolome fiestas that have made this Alagón valley town a byword for lively patronal celebration."
Fiestas patronales de San Bartolome
"In the tiny Granadilla sierra village of Mohedas, the feast of San Ramon Nonato on 31 August is the single great annual gathering of the community, a compact and deeply local patronal celebration surrounded by oak-clad sierra landscape."
Fiestas patronales de San Ramon Nonato