Patron Saint Festivities of Torreblanca (San Bartolomé)

This is Torreblanca going all out for its patron, San Bartolomé, and the town gives over a good ten days to it. The saint's day proper brings a solemn midday mass and an evening procession, then everyone gathers at the Plaza Mayor for a floral offering that winds up to the Cristo del Calvario shrine. Fireworks follow, and the locals form circles for the ball de plaça at the Quatre Cantons crossroads, which is the sort of thing you'll remember long after.

Across the rest of the run there's a giant communal paella on Calle San Antonio with a charanga band blaring away, bull-running, kids' gincanas in the morning, and verbenas that keep an orchestra going past midnight. Most of it's free. Turn up, wander in, eat well.