Festivals & Fiestas

Lentegí Patron Saint Festival - Virgen del Rosario

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📅 25 Dec–28 Dec 2026 · Lentegí

This small white-village in the hills above the Costa Tropical celebrates its patron saint festival over the Christmas week, with a traditional Aurora rosary and procession, communal village meals on the 26th and 27th, and evening live orchestras and DJ sets in the square. A genuinely local fiesta with low language barrier - turn up, eat and dance with the village.

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When
25 Dec 2026 – 28 Dec 2026
2026 dates not yet confirmed — please verify
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Where
Village centre / Plaza del Ayuntamiento, Lentegí · Lentegí
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Price
Free
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Happens
Annual, celebrated 25-28 December (the patron's official feast day is 7 October). (annual)
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Most of the Costa Tropical's fiestas land in summer, so this one stands out: Lentegí throws its patron saint celebration during Christmas week, up in the hills behind the coast. It's a tiny place, and the festival feels exactly that scale. Things open with the Aurora, an old dawn rosary sung through the streets, followed by a procession for the Virgen del Rosario.

The real draw is the eating. On the 26th and 27th the village lays on communal meals, the kind where you sit down with whoever's next to you and end up staying for hours. Come evening the square fills for live orchestras and DJ sets that run late. There's no language barrier worth worrying about here. You turn up, you eat, you dance, and the villagers are glad you came.

Source: https://www.infocostatropical.com/noticia.asp?id_noticia=109402

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