Tenerife, Spain
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
January
www.festivaldecanarias.com
Santa Cruz, Tenerife, Spain
January – February
www.webtenerife.com
This Spanish Festival is one of the world’s biggest street parties and it last for two weeks.
Barcelona, Spain
February
www.sitges.com
This is a crazy and wild party, as more than 250,000 people are usually there. It’s famous for its gay resort; you find thousands dressed up in costumes.
San Sebastian, Spain
February
This Spanish festival has street parties and its to remember the arrival of Hungarian gypsies. The locals get dressed up in gypsy outfits.
Valencia, Spain
March
www.lasfallas.net
This five-day long Spanish festival attracts over 2 million people for fireworks and parades and Valancia's population triples in size during this festival.
Zaragoza, Spain
March
This Spanish Festival honours Zaragoza's citizens, who in 1838 defended the city against a Carlist attack. There are loads of picnics and barbies everywhere.
Seville, Spain
April
This Spanish festival has hundreds of parades and singing over the Easter weekend.
Seville, Spain
April
This Spanish festival is Seville's best party with traditional dress, parades, dancing and wild parties.
Alcoy, Spain
April
This Spanish festival you will see locals fill the streets dressed as slaves and soldiers to celebrate the Reconquista, the period during which Spain was liberated from Muslim rule in the 13th century. A year is spent preparing 28 armies to fight in the mock war.
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
April
www.cicspain.com
Extremadura, Spain
May
www.womad.org
Barcelona, Spain
May
Madrid, Spain
May
Seville, Spain
May
www.territoriossevilla.com
Jerez, Spain
May
www.andalucia.com
This Spanish festival is one of the more interesting festivals in Spain. Together with equestrian competitions, in typical Spanish style there's also sherry, flamenco and bullfighting.
Murcia Spain
May
www.sos48.com
This Spanish festival is one of Spain's best kept secrets, as this small festival attracts the big bands, but is relatively small at the moment, but we are sure that wll change soon.
Granada, Spain
June
Barcelona, Spain
June
www.sonar.es
This is arguably the best festival in Spain, which attracts loads of great DJs and bands from around the world. If there is one festival you should go in Spain then this is the one.
Barcelona, Spain
June
Barcelona, Spain
June
There are bonfires and fireworks throughout the city
Berga, Spain
June
www.spain.info
This Spanish festival is an amazing show of explosions and pyrotechnics as this Catalan city celebrates Corpus Christi. There is loads of great music to keep you entertained. You can expect to see processions that include demons, dragons and angels. All of this is accompanied by the beat of a 'tabai' drum.
Barcelona, Spain
June
www.primaverasound.com
This Spanish festival takes place in the Parc del Forum in Barcelona, Spain. It's fast becoming one of the most popular in the city.
San Fermin, Pamplona, Spain
July
www.pamplona.net
www.sanfermin.com
This event has been going since 1591. It kicks off when the Mayor of Pamplona fires the ‘chupinazo’ (a rocket) from the balcony of the Town Hall. Then for the next 8 days the city parties its butt off and of course it has its famous running of the bulls when thousands of people watch as bulls run through the streets.
Benicassim, Spain
End of July
www.fiberfib.com
This four day Spanish festival attracts some of the biggest names around and with its location being right on the beach it's a huge crowd favourite.
Avila, Spain
July
This Spanish festival has street parties, parades, bullfights and live music.
Cartagena, Spain
July
www.lamardemusicas.com
Valencia, Spain
July
www.fiberfib.com
Located on the Mediterranean this three-day Benicassim Festival attracts loads of great bands. In the past they have had Muse, Artic Monkeys, and DJ Yoda to name a few. It’s definitely worth checking it out.
Kobetamendi, Bilbao, Spain
July
www.bilbaobbklive.com
This is a relatively new festival in Spain, but its fast becoming one of the most popular due to its great line-up. Some of the past bands have included Coldplay, Amy Winehouse, Chemical Brothers, Kasabian and the Kaiser Chiefs just to name a few.
Spain
July
Murcia, Spain
July
www.jazz.sanjavier.es
Zaragoza, Spain
July
www.goingnowhere.org
This Spanish festival was inspired by the Burning Man Festival in Nevada, USA. It's in the middle of the Spanish desert and it attracts thousands of people annually.
San Sebastian, Spain
July
www.
This Spanish festival takes place at the San Telmo Museum and they get international bands every year.
Malaga, Spain
August
This is the biggest party in town with fancy dress, exotic food and dance, and fireworks.
Madrid, Spain
August
August
www.rocketfestival.com
Bilbao, Spain
August
This is a big Basque celebration including free concerts, fireworks nightly and strong man contests.
San Lorenzo and La Paloma, Spain
August
Buňol, Spain
August 29th
www.latomatina.com or www.latomatina.es or www.latomatina.org
Every year this tiny town of 9000 people swells to 5 times that number for the world’s biggest tomato fight. They say there are around 30,000 people, 140 tonnes of tomatoes, and they give you 60 minutes of mayhem, or simple all out war to throw the tomatoes at each other.
Vic, Spain
September
www.artbaco.com
San Sebastian, Spain
September
www.sansebastian.festival.com
This Spanish Festival showcases the best of the world cinema
Barcelona, Spain
September
www.bcn.cat/merce
This Spanish Festival is big street party in Barcelona that lasts for four days. It's held in honour of the patron saint of the Catalan Capital, Our Lady of Mercy. Onlookers can enjoy spectacles that include larger than life marionettes parading though the streets with dazzling firework displays.
Ibiza, Spain
September
www.loveibiza.net
This Spanish Event is on during the last fortnight in September into the first week of October and its the closing parties of Ibiza. It's the final on-slaught of clubbers to hit the clubs before they close for the summer.
Seville, Spain
October
www.womex.com
