Mercado Medieval de Castrojeriz

"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

"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