Aragon Guide

Cetina's Contradanza - Date: During the feast day of St. Juan Lorenzo, from 18 to 21 May. An extremely original dance with Celtic music –the only one in Aragon- which commemorates the death of the Saint. It is a masked dance from pre-Christian times which preserves remains of old farming rites. The jumps of the ...

Daroca's Corporales - Date: The day of Corpus Christi, at the beginning of June. It is a procession in honour of the Sacred Corporals. Tradition says that in 1239 the Hosts turned into blood sticking to the corporals that surrounded them. They are kept, in the church of Santa Maria, in a gold relic donated by the ...

Festivals & Fiestas - Popular festivals or fiestas in Aragon go beyond the commonplace. Aragon folklore has known how to keep alive its deep roots in the ancestral world of the legendary and primitive. In fact, the actual religious feast days such us Saint John, the Carnival or the Corpus are edified intelligently over ...

Other Fiestas of Interest in Teruel - Alcala de la Selva. The 8 September is the Virgin of the Vega, there is a procesión to the shrine and different popular acts are held. Alcañiz. The patron saints’ feast days of Our lady of Pueyos and Santo Angel Custodio are held from 9 September onwards. The procession to ...

Other Fiestas of Interest in the Aragonese Pyrenees - 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. ...

Other Fiestas of Interest in Zaragoza Province - Ainzon. On the eve of St. Anton, on 16 January, bonfires. The patron saint of the town is St. Sebastian, on 20 January. After the procession of the Saint they eat cakes in the wineries. The second Sunday in March, the day of the quitos, each boy invites a firl to accompany him all day and serves ...

Teruel City's Fiestas del Angel - Date: The second Sunday in July, close to St. Cristobal. Dedicated to the Santo Angel (Holy Angel), the patron saint of the city, they commemorate the legendary foundation of Teruel by some Aragonese knights after taking the Moslem fortress, which a fighting bull led them to. The most popular ...

Zaragoza City's Fiestas del Pilar - Date: Around 12 October Fiesta of tourist interest. The devotion to the Virgin of the Pilar from the tradition that says that Mary miraculously visited the apostle James in Zaragoza. El Pilar lasts for nine days, with all kinds of acts: from the massively attended Pregon (opening speech) to the ...