Festivals in Orense

Carnival of Verín

From 8th February to 13th February

Verín (Orense)

Carnival

This festival of National Tourist Interest is celebrated for three weeks and every day is full of surprises. It follows an ancestral ritual with the presence of "cigarrones" that walk through the main streets, parades of troupes, floats, music and open-air dances. Weeks of fun and gastronomic feasts.

Tired Donkey Soup Festival

From 4th August to 5th August

Muíños (Orense)

Gastronomic

Declared a festival of tourist interest in Galicia. It consists of the tasting of the traditional dish made with bread, wine and sugar. There will be charangas, popular games, craft fair, Galician championship of carrilanas and orchestra.

Skewered Meat Festival and Youth Encounter

From 5th August to 5th August

Calvos de Randín (Orense)

Meat or espeto de becerro e porco, a different and particular feast of the area. With products from our land. A party for all ages, with hiking route, food, activities for children and enlivened by a disco.

Sounds of Teixeira

From 9th August to 19th August

Teixeira, A (Orense)

Concerts, circus, dance, adventure, gastronomy, cinema, wine tasting, kayak.... culture in the Ribeira Sacra!!!

Festivities in honour of the Virgin of the Rosary in A Peroxa

From 6th October to 9th October

Peroxa, A (Orense)

Popular festivity that we celebrate every year in a small village. Novena every weekday in honour of the Virgin of the Rosary.

Feast of Magosto or San Martín Patron Saint Festivities in Ourense

From 11th November to 11th November

Ourense (Orense)

Gastronomic

Chestnuts, fire, food and drink are the ingredients of the Magosto Festival in Ourense, where ancestral beliefs come together with a festive and magical atmosphere, are you going to miss it?

Upcoming festivals

Sant Antoni festivities in Barcelona

From 13th January to 23rd January

Barcelona (Barcelona)

For Sant Antoni you can enjoy the best of Barcelona's culture at the Festes of Sant Antoni, with giants and big-heads, theatre, dance, concerts and activities for all ages.

Las Paces Festival in Villarta de San Juan

From 23rd January to 26th January

Villarta de San Juan (Ciudad Real)

Las Paces Festival in Villarta de San Juan

In February, the festival of Las Paces is celebrated in Villarta de San Juan, where thousands of rockets and fireworks are launched to thank the Virgin for the peace that has reigned in the town for more than 650 years.

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Carnival

From 25th January to 18th February

Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las (Palmas (Las))

The Carnival of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is one of the oldest and most renowned festivals, the streets are dressed up for the party, with lots of colour, music and joy in every corner.

Festival of the Cuadrillas in Barranda

From 26th January to 28th January

Caravaca de la Cruz (Murcia)

At the end of January the Fiesta de las Cuadrillas is held, where the streets of Barranda host the clash of the cuadrillas and the different bands perform traditional songs and dances of the most joyful and entertaining kind.

The Endiablada

From 1st February to 3rd February

Almonacid del Marquesado (Cuenca)

In February, Almonacid del Marquesado celebrates the festival of La Endiablada, where more than a hundred devils walk through the streets of the village with dances and jumps.