Have you ever heard of Barcelona's bizarre egg dancing festival? This odd tradition has even been declared a Heritage Festival of National Interest. Here's everything you need to know.
A red-and-white sea of revellers erupted in celebration Wednesday, dousing each other with wine in a packed Pamplona square as Spain's most famous bull-running festival returned after a two-year absence due to the pandemic.
Valencia's Fallas festival wrapped up with fireworks and the burning of colourful sculptures on Sunday after returning to the eastern Spanish city following a pandemic-induced hiatus.
The eastern Spanish city of Valencia has announced that it will finally hold its famous Las Fallas celebrations this September, as both March 2021’s festival and last year's event were cancelled due to the pandemic.
February is the month to shake off the winter blues with Carnival! Or head to a celebration of the most tragic of star-crossed lovers. That doesn't sound like your scene? Then how about a gastro festval?
Spain’s consumer watchdog has urged festival goers who attended Madrid’s Mad Cool at the weekend to demand compensation from organizers over ‘unacceptable’ conditions at the music event.
Some of the world’s most important figures made an appearance at the Fallas festival in Valencia last week. At the end of the four day festivities, however, the satirical effigies of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong-Un, to name a few, were burned down.
Hundreds of fiestas take place across Spain each year, whether it be a small village celebrating their patron saint or nationwide celebrations. Here is our pick of the best.
As the summer sets in and temperatures soar across the country, it’s the perfect time to dance away your days and nights at one of Spain’s many music festivals. Here are some of our favourites.
As the summer sets in and temperatures soar across the country, it’s the perfect time to dance away your days and nights at one of Spain’s many music festivals. Here are some of our favourites.
Radiohead will play its long-awaited new album in June when the experimental rockers headline Primavera Sound in Barcelona, the festival announced on Thursday.
The eastern Spanish town of Ibi held its annual Enfarinats festival on Saturday, a colourful and messy fiesta which sees revellers launch eggs, flour and firecrackers at each other in a mock coup d’etat.
Hundreds of fiestas take place across Spain each year, whether it be a small village celebrating their patron saint or nationwide celebrations. Here is our pick of the best.
Barcelona's Sónar has long been the main event of Spain's festival season, but one of Spain's hottest up and coming festivals could be about to give it a run for its money.
November in Spain is bursting at the seams for lovers of art, culture, food and sport. Find out what's on as The Local showcases the best the country has to offer in the month before Christmas.
Short days and cooler temperatures getting you down? Don't worry: there is still plenty going on across Spain as autumn sets in. Here The Local has rounded up some of the most exciting events across the country to keep you busy during October.
Fifty thousand 'Vikings' landed on the shores of a small village in northern Spain on Sunday, as part of an annual festival which commemorates a Scandinavian invasion which took place a thousand years ago.
It's holiday season and town and cities across Spain are laying on a wealth of events for locals and visitors alike. Here The Local gives you a round up of all the best events around the country in August.
Beach bonfires, athletic horses and satirical wax figures took over many corners of Spain on Monday and Tuesday night to mark St. John's Eve (San Juan), a popular celebration around the world which calls in the arrival of summer.
