The Area - Fiestas

A fiesta is a party, a celebration a thanksgiving and to a Spaniard it represents their culture, town or village and Patron Saint. Fiestas are therefore an integral part of town and village where the local people exhibit an extraordinary zest for life, family commitment and inexhaustible hospitality.

Bright lights, theatrics, processions, battle re-enactments, loud and colourful firework displays an abundance of delicious food and drink. Celebrations go on for hours sometimes days at a time.

Moors and Christians

This festival is celebrated all over Spain depicting the battles that took place between the Moors and the Christians between the 13th and 1 th centuries. Participants take part in battle re-enactments and processions dressed in the most splendid, elaborate, expensive costumes, accompanying masterly decorated floats.

Processions often take hours as the participants accompanied by bands and animals wind there way through the streets of villages and towns alike.

Holy Week (Semana Santa)

Easter is the most important of all celebrations in the Christian calendar.

Processions take place most evenings from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. These processions can appear a somewhat sombre affair to onlookers.

Las Fallas

A traditional Valencian festival of Saint Joseph the carpenter and unparalleled feasts of fire signifying renovation, spring cleaning and the change of seasons.

Fallas are gigantic creations of wood, paper mache and wax depicting satirical and humorous figures, similar to Walt Disney like characters. These creations are erected in the streets and often stand as high as 30 metres.

Throughout the week of Las Fallas there is and abundance of celebrations processions, bands and fireworks. The "Crema" is the culmination of the Fallas when on the night of the feast of St Joseph these creations are set alight to be devoured by fire and fireworks