Aragon Guide

Fiestas in Huesca, Aragon

Anso - Day of the Exaltation of the Anso dress. Date: Last Sunday in August. Anso becomes living museum for its traditional dress. It begins with a procession at midday, followed by mass and passacaglia through the village, when the visitors can enjoy the beauty of the traditional Anso dress. In the ...

Jaca - Folk Festival of the Pyrenees. Date: End of July and beginning of August, Sunday being the last day; odd years in Jaca and even years in Oloron (France). Fiesta of tourist interest. Folk groups from all over the world exhibit their dances and traditions in the Congress Palace. But the real ...

Yebra de Basa - Procession to shrine of St. Orosia. Date: 25 June. This is a reminder of the flight, of the martyr to the place where the hermitage was raised. The procession leaves in the early hours of the morning carrying her skull in a 15th century silver bust. They climb the hill stopping to dance along ...

Ainsa - La Morisma. Date: The Sunday closest to the 14 September. (Bi-annual celebration on odd years). This commemorates the appearance of the Holy Cross on a tree, as can be seen on the shield of Aragon, and which was the signal that encouraged the Aragonese trops’e town. The legendary drama of ...

Bielsa - Carnivals. Date: During carnival time, for 3 days. An anthropological phenomenon with great popular tradition and symbolism. Its origins are lost in time. The trangas are young men wearing coloured skirts and shirts, with their heads and shoulders covered by goats skins and with large horns, ...

Graus - The Mojiganga. Date: The Sunday closet to 14 September. Fiesta of tourist interest. The mojiganga is a grotesque group that goes round the town and finishes its activity in the Plaza Mayor (main square), with a dramatic popular performance carried out by the villagers, which is a satire of ...

Huesca - St. Lorenzo. Date: Between 9 and 15 August. According to tradition, St. Lorenzo was martyred on 10 August of the year 258. In his memory, the town is decked out with the white and green of the local groups. Tradition and amusement, mingle together: musical performances, dances and cultural ...

Other Fiestas of Interest - Ainsa-Sobrarbe. On 16 September, fiesta of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Ayerbe. At the end of the month of January the Conversion of St. Paul is celebrated with folk dances and pilgrimage to the Saint’s chapel. On 1 June, procession to the shrine of the Virgin of Casbas. Barbastro. ...