This is the fishing town's own day, run by the municipality and the fishermen's guild together, and it shows. The build-up across mid-July is properly local: greasy-pole games and cucanya contests down by the water, an evening of havaneres (the old sea shanties best heard with a glass in hand), and fireworks over the bay. There's a children's day too, and dancing into the night.
The heart of it falls on 16 July. After the mass, the Virgin is carried from the port chapel onto a fishing boat, and a flotilla of working craft and small pleasure boats follows her out across the harbour. A brass xaranga keeps the noise up from the deck, and wreaths go onto the water for those the sea has taken. Watch it from the quay, or talk your way aboard.
