Fiestas del Santo Cristo del Amparo
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.
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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
"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."
Fiesta del Orujo de Potes
"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
"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