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| Feria y Fiestas de Pedro Romero | |
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Location: Ronda | Spain Event period: Feast of Corpus Christi |
| Ronda is the Mecca of tauromacy (bull fighting). From 1754 to 1839, the now legendary Pedro Romero, who invented modern bull fighting, lived here, elevated the profession of the matador to a high soci.....
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| La Tomatina | |
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Location: Buñol | Spain Event period: Feast of Corpus Christi |
| For exactly 60 years now, on the last Wednesday of August each year, between 11am and 1pm, the annual tomato fight has been taking place in the small town of Buñol, known as “La Tomatina” – a war in w.....
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| Féria de Pentecôte | |
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Location: Nîmes | France Event period: Ascension Day |
| Nîmes is worth a visit. Laying in the midst of the ‘Garrigue’, (French marshes), Nîmes is a town with many faces, but, above all, it is the ‘French Rome’, so-called because of its glorious past. Yet w.....
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| Ribatejo Fair | |
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Location: Santarém | Portugal Event period: Feast of Corpus Christi |
| The town of Santarém is the economic centre of the Ribatejo and the location of the large national agricultural fair. The vineyards around the towns of Santarém and Rio Maior occupy more than 7,000 ha.....
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| Ferias del Motin | |
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Location: Madrid | Spain Event period: Feast of Corpus Christi |
| Aranjuez, on the riverbanks south of Madrid, offers a variety of impressive sights to the visitor, having been the summer residence of the kings during the 18th century. They include the Royal Palace .....
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| Fiesta de San Isidro | |
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Location: Madrid | Spain Event period: Ascension Day |
| In Madrid, every day is a party, but in the festival calendar the “Fiesta de San Isidro” has a special place – it is the celebration of the capital’s patron saint, San Isidro, protector of the peasant.....
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| Virgen Blanca | |
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Location: Vitoria-Gasteiz | Spain Event period: Feast of Corpus Christi |
| Vitoria, or “Gasteiz”, as it is called in Basque, is the capital of the province of Alavas and is known for its festival of the “Holy white Virgin” which takes place in the first week of August every .....
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| Fiesta de San Fermin | |
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Location: Pamplona | Spain Event period: Feast of Corpus Christi |
| The inhabitants of Pamplona are particularly proud that Ernest Hemingway preserved the town and its bulls for posterity in his book ‘Fiesta’, which he wrote in 1926, his first big novel. Its setting i.....
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| Feria de Córdoba | |
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Location: Córdoba | Spain Event period: Feast of Corpus Christi |
| Who, when thinking of Spain, doesn’t think of flamenco and tapas, of bull fighting, of Moorish palaces and tiled terraces? Most of these images come from Andalusia, that area in the south of Spain whi.....
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| Conmemoración de la Conquista de los Cristianos | |
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Location: Marbella | Spain Event period: Feast of Corpus Christi |
| During the eighth century the Moors invaded the south of Spain. Muslim domination was a period of economic prosperity and peaceful coexistence between Christians and Moors. Religious tolerance was not.....
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