Category : Spanish Festivals

Ottery St. Mary’s Carnival

Posted in Festivals in November, Spanish Festivals on 31. Jan, 2010

Ottery St. Mary is a unique carnival in which barrels coated with coal tar are burned and carried up and down the streets. What started this tradition and why; nobody knows for sure. All that is known is that the centuries old tradition either started as a way of warning the approach of Spanish Ships, [...]

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The Las Fallas Festival at Valencia, Spain

Posted in Spanish Festivals on 19. Mar, 2009

For lovers of the Carnival spirit, the Las Fallas festival offers a heady mix of sights and sound and gastronomical pleasure in plenty. Valencia is one of Spain’s autonomous Political regions and very proud in flaunting its cultural heritage. The fiesta spans twenty days of March, not counting some of the preliminary festivities in February. [...]

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