Fiestas Patronales de Baños de Rioja (Virgen del Pilar)
This small Riojan village's patron feast centres on a procession with traditional dancers and bell-ringing as the image of the Virgen del Pilar is carried through the streets, with a popular communal lunch and Mus card tournament rounding off the day.
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"A second outing of Anguiano's world-unique stilt dance marks the autumn Thanksgiving as the village's patron saint is returned to her hilltop hermitage after the summer."
Danza de los Zancos de Anguiano (Fiestas de Acción de Gracias)
"Eight young dancers balance on 45 cm pointed wooden stilts and spin down a steep cobbled street in a rite documented since at least 1603, unique in the world to this small Najerilla valley village."
Danza de los Zancos de Anguiano (Fiestas de la Magdalena)
"One of Spain's oldest historical performance festivals, staging medieval theatre in Nájera's Plaza de Santa María since 1969, evoking the town's glory as a 10th-century kingdom capital."
Crónica Najerense
"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