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SPANISH FESTIVALS
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JANUARY

 20, San Sebastian
La Tamborada, local fair

6, San Sebastian
Three King's Day

27, Barcelona
City celebration with fireworks

??, San Sebastian
Festividad

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FEBRUARY

End of February, Best in Cadiz & Sitges
Carneval - fancy dress parades, seven weeks before Easter
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MARCH

12-19, Valencia
Las Fallas, week long festival of fireworks, bonfires and processions
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APRIL

1 week before Easter, Seville
Semana Santa Festival. Processions of religious brotherhoods dressed in penitents' garb with pointed hoods accompany sacred images through the city

1 week before Easter, Avila
Semana Santa Festival here is also recommended.

Late, Seville
Feria de Abril. Six days of music, dancing and horse riding in the Los Remedios area west of the river. Daily buillfights and citywide parties.

Begins at Easter, Various locations around Spain
Bullfighting

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MAY
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JUNE


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JULY

6-14, Pamplona
Sanfermines. This festival is characterised by non stop partying and running with the bulls. Read on for this account of the festival.

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AUGUST

Last Wednesday, Buñol, Valencia
La Tomatina festival in which the surplus from the tomato harvest is thrown around

First half of August, North Coast
Semana Grande - a party week characterised by much drinking

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SEPTEMBER

24, Barcelona
Festes de la Merce, week long party of merrymaking

?? Zarauz
Costa Vasca Round of the World Surfing Championship


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OCTOBER

8-15, Avila
Festival of Santa Teresa

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NOVEMBER

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DECEMBER

Christmas Day, all Spain

New years Eve, all Spain

The following holidays are observed in most places in Spain:
1 January (New Year's Day)
6 January (Epiphany or Three King's Day)
Good Friday
1 May (Labour Day)
15 August (Feast of the Assumption)
12 October (National Day)
1 November (All Saint's Day)
8 December (Feast of the Immaculate Conception)
25 December (Christmas Day)

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