Festivals & Fiestas

Festes de Sant Joanet de Mosquera and Crist de la Salut

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📅 23 Jun–28 Jun 2027 · Alcalalí

Alcalalí's eagerly awaited patron-saint fiesta fills the village square with open-air orchestra concerts, fireworks, processions, folk dancing and traditional feasts. Highlights for visitors include a giant paella, the local 'torrà' sausage dinner, a costume parade and late-night live music with bands like Mi Tierra, La Tribu and Pacific Blue.

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When
23 Jun 2027 – 28 Jun 2027
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Where
Plaça de l'Ajuntament and streets of Alcalalí · Alcalalí
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Price
Free street events; tickets for some activities sold at Plaça de l'Ajuntament (13/14 & 20/21 June)
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Happens
Annual (late June), with a saint's-return procession on 5 July 2026 (annual)
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Alcalalí is a small inland village above the Jalón valley, and for a week from 23 June it hands itself over to its patron saint. Things kick off when the church bells ring out, a parade winds through the streets and the first fireworks go up. The square sees a different orchestra most nights — Mi Tierra and La Tribu among them, Pacific Blue to close — playing well past midnight, with lime slushies handed round during the folk dancing.

The food is half the reason to come. A giant paella fills the square on the Saturday afternoon, followed that evening by a costume parade, and earlier in the week there's a "torrà" supper of local sausage in carob sauce. Crist de la Salut day brings a bread blessing and "pambenet" loaves shared through the streets. Most of it is free and out in the open. Turn up, follow the noise.

Source: https://alcalali.es/programa-de-festes-sant-joanet-de-mosquera-i-crist-de-la-salut/

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