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March's Festivals and Holidays in Alicante |
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March |
Fantasy Cinema
16th Festival of Fantasy Cinema, Universtiy of Malaga, El Teatro Cine Alameda |
1st
Sunday
March |
Fiesta del Queso
1st Sunday of March. Arzua, La Coruña, Galicia. A popular feast with many cheeses. In the evening, there are free concerts. |
11th
March |
Madrid Bombings
Third anniversary of the Madrid bombings in which 191 people were killed and more than 1,500 injured. |
15th-19th
March |
Fallas de San Jose, Valencia.
This Fiesta dates from the Middle Ages, but it did not acquire the 'personality' we know today until the middle of the last century. The festivites include: a night-time parade; procession in the old towns of Valencia; the offering of flowers to Nuestra Senora de los Desamparados (Our Lady of the Forsaken), patroness of the city; and the famous "Nit del Foc" (Night of the Fire), on which all the "fallas" (grotesque and humorous scenes made up of carboard figures) are burned. |
19th
March |
Fathers Day
Children tend to be busy at school in the weekend leading up to Father's day, making precious gifts for dad! |
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March |
Granada's Tango Festival
This year is the 16th anniversary of this festival and is one of this city's most interesting initiatives, not only in musical terms, but as a valuable cultural interchange between two cultures which are so close and, at the same time, so distant. |
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March |
The Festival de Jerez
The Festival de Jerez is a flamenco festival with some of Spain's top performers. In Valencia it's the Fallas de San José where there are huge street parties with incredible fireworks every night and the burning of the fallas (papier-mache effigies of famous people) on the last day. |
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March |
Romeria del Rocio Festival
Every spring around one million people converge on the shrine of El Rocio, at the edge of the Doñana national park, in the biggest romeria, or pilgrimage, in Spain. For an emotion-packed three days, the devotees of the Virgen del Rocio - Our Lady of the Dew - take part in a celebration which combines religious fervor and festive colour. Many of the pilgrims make their way to the shrine on horseback or in brightly decorated carriages, in multi-coloured caravans that wind across the Andalucian countryside. |
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