- Seville and Malaga are the most famous cities for Semana Santa, but Valladolid and Leon are also important.

- Semana Santa is the known Spanish name for”Easter”. Most members of local parishes carry ornate decorated floats depicting the Passion of Christ into the city cathedrals.

The Bull Run is one of the most well known acts of the San Fermines Festival and it’s a major reason why so many strangers make their way to Pamplona every July. The events when the runners race along half a mile of narrow streets that are walled off every morning.

The bulls go from the Santo Domingo corrals to the Bull Ring where (later in the afternoon) they are later killed as part of the daily bullfight. There is a total of six bulls are "run" (as well as two herds of tame steers) through the city center. The rout is about half a mile.

Note, this is a very a dangerous race, its run every morning between the 7th and 14th of July, begins promptly at 8:00 a.m. Runners are advised, however, to show up at least an hour before.

A few minutes before the race is started the runners entrust themselves to San Fermín and sing three times before the St. Fermin statue, which is decorated with the scarves of the peñas. The statue is located on the Cuesta de Santo Domingo at the beginning of the route.

La Tomatina is a food fight festival held on the last Wednesday of August each year in the town of Buñol in the Valencia region of Spain. Tens of thousands of participants come from all over the world to fight in a brutal battle where more than one hundred metric tons of over-ripe tomatoes are thrown in the streets.

The week-long festival features music, parades, dancing, and fireworks. On the night before the tomato fight, participants of the festival compete in a paella cooking contest. Approximately 25,000–40,000 tourists come to the tomato fight, multiplying by several times Buñol's normal population of 9,000.

There is limited accommodation for people who come to La Tomatina, and thus many participants stay in Valencia and travel by bus or train to Buñol, about 38 km outside the city.

This is a five-day event leading up to Saint Joseph's Day which is held on the (19 March). The event takes place in Valencia, on the Costa Blanca.

Nature of the event, imagine a bonfire from Guy Fawkes Night or a Homecoming and multiply it by a factor of one hundred: that is Las Fallas.

To start the event, each neighborhood traditionally gets together to build giant puppets which are then later set fire to. There is usually a satirical nature to these puppets, though not always. The burning of these puppets is of course accompanied with plenty of street parties throughout the city.

During the festival, not all the puppets get burned. There is a public vote to decide on the very best puppets for this year. These are taken to the Museo Fallero, Valencia's Fallas museum.

The Seville Spring Fair, Feria de abril de Sevilla, is held in the Andalusian capital of Seville, Spain. The fair begins two weeks after the Semana Santa, or Easter Holy Week.

The fair officially begins at midnight on Tuesday, and runs six days, ending on the following Sunday. During past fairs, however, many activities have begun on the Saturday prior to the official opening. Each day the fiesta begins with the parade of carriages and riders, at midday, carrying Seville's leading citizens which make their way to the bullring, the La Real Maestranza, where the bullfighters and breeders meet.

For the duration of the fair, the fairgrounds, a vast area is on the far bank of the Guadalquivir River, are totally covered in rows of casetas (individual decorated marquee tents which are temporarily built on the fairground).

Some of these casetas belong to the prominent families of Seville, some to groups of friends, clubs, trade associations or political parties. From around nine at night until six or seven the following morning, at first in the streets and later only within each caseta, you will find crowds partying and dancing "Sevillanas", drinking Jerez sherry, or manzanilla wine, and eating tapas.

For over 40 years the festival was forbidden between 1938 to 1981 by the Spanish dictator Franco, in 1981 the Carnaval of Spain was allowed to return to the streets and reclaim its inheritance from dusty attics.

The Spanish Carnival Festival is one of the country’s most celebrated and most lively festivals. Bashes ensue throughout the country taking cities and villages by storm. Visit Spain at the time of the carnival and see spectacularly costumed citizens populate the streets taking part in revelry and merrymaking unrivalled by any other Spanish festival.

Moros y Cristianos, which literally means Moors and Christians, and is a set of festival activities which are celebrated in lots of towns and cities of Spain, mainly in the southern Valencian Community; according to popular tradition the festivals commemorate the battles, combats and fights between Moors (or Muslims) and Christians during the period known as Reconquista (from the 8th century up to 15th century). Moros y Cristianos festivals represent the capture of the city by the Moors and the subsequent Christian reconquest.

The people that take part in the festival are usually enlisted in filaes and for several days, they parade with bombastic costumes loosely inspired by Medieval fashion.

Christians wear fur, metallic helmets, and armor, fire loud arquebuses, and ride horses. In contrast, Moors wear ancient Arab costumes, carry scimitars, and ride real camels or elephants.

The festival develops among shots of gunpowder, medieval music, and fireworks, and ends with the Christians winning a simulated battle around a castle.

This festival has its origins in the nineteenth century, as a commemoration of the Napoleonic occupation of San Sebastian during the War of Independence (1808-1812). Although there are various versions on the role played drums and barrels at the time so that today are the essential part of the festival, the most widely noted that when they occupied Napoleonic military parade in the city training drum playing the San aguadoras Sebastian them responded by pounding the vats used to collect water sources. Thus, currently the tamborradas adult present two groups: one drum with Napoleonic costume inspired by a real costume and another with cooks and aguadoras barrel.

The first tamborrada parade in the late nineteenth century was the Artisans Union. Initially the tamborrada part of the carnival, but was soon broken away. In fact, and as a curiosity, of San Sebastian used the verb dress rather than disguise at the time of wear suits or cook Napoleonic.

The songs that are interpreted, including the March of San Sebastian, were composed by Raimundo Sarriegui, professor of the Academy.

This is the time when Bilbao celebrates its Basque heritage with this vibrant fiesta. More than 100,000 people join in the Bilbao Semana Grande celebrations, which include the famous Strongman games and firework displays hosted by a different nation every evening.

The best places to view the firework displays are the city's bridges, from where you'll see rockets soar over the top of buildings, lighting up the night sky. Music is also a key to the celebrations and there are free performances of all kinds on stages in squares and churches throughout the city

The two most noted ones are; the stage in the Plaza Nueva ( Café Bar Bilbao where you test some of the best tapas in town) and the quarry amphitheatre behind the town hall. Each night in these locations a major concert kicks off at midnight and continues well into the wee hours of the morning.