Festes de la Beata (Blessed One Festival)
One of Mallorca's most spectacular traditional fiestas, honouring the island's patron Saint Caterina Tomàs. The Sunday-evening procession features a dozen decorated floats (carrosses) re-enacting scenes from the saint's life, accompanied by bagpipers, brass bands and acrobatic 'dimonis' (demons) who smash clay pots at the Beata's feet.
The day starts early and loud. Bare-faced demons run the streets at dawn, bells clanging, to rattle the whole town awake before Sunday Mass. By evening the village square fills for the procession proper: a dozen floats roll through retelling scenes from the saint's life, trailed by xeremiers on the bagpipes, brass bands and a couple of thousand locals in folk dress.
The bit you'll remember is the jugs. Costumed farmers carry clay pots, the demons chase them down, snatch the pots and smash them at the feet of the Beata, a local girl raised up at the front. The demon spins on one foot, she lifts a cross, and the pot shatters. In a good year well over a thousand go the same way. It's free, it's properly chaotic, and the parties carry on well into the night.
Source: https://www.mallorca.es/en/-/fiesta-de-la-beata-en-santa-margalida