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CELEBRATIONS
 Annual calendar of Popular Celebrations and Festive Activities.
JANUARY.
Cavalcade of Kings Magos
FEBRUARY.
Celebration of the Candlemas. Lobres.
Day of Andalusia. Salobreña, Lobres, the Creek.
APRIL.
Easter.
MAY.
Day of Cruces. Salobreña, Lobres, the Creek.
JUNE.
Celebrations of San Antonio. Lobres.
Day of Tapa in Salobreña.
Celebrations of San Juan. Salobreña.
JULIO.
Celebrations of the Carmen. The Creek.
Summer in Salobreña.
AUGUST.
Summer in Salobreña. OCTOBER.
Celebrations and romería of Rosary.
DECEMBER.
Day of the Constitution.
Celebrations of Christmas in Salobreña, Lobres, the Creek.
The popular celebrations of Salobreña and their districts are one of the attractive majors of this town. Throughout the year, the calendar is sprinkled of festive and playful proposals, that lock up the popular tradition and the festive customs and habits, for the benefit of residents and visitors.
The cavalcade of Kings Magos, gives to the welcome to the new year day 5 of January. Celebrations like the Candlemas de Lobres or the day of Andalusia that in Salobreña is celebrated enough with enthusiasm, are celebration of popular character during the month of February.
The Easter crosses the zoomings hills, between scents to incense. The processional steps enjoy surroundings that give to a noticeable character of respetuosidad and admiration him, between the great number of assistants who follow them until high hours of the dawn. By its particularitity we can emphasize
procession of the Solitude in which women only participate (Good Friday).
The Day de la Cruz in May becomes the celebration of the spring; numerous districts and streets are decorated by their neighbors with crossings and flowers, turning their corners into a colorful spectacle of joy and. The suits of steering wheels are intermingled with the sweetness of the habitual perfume to flowers in this month of May.
The popular celebrations of San Antonio and the Candlemas, in Lobres, and the Fair of San Juan in Salobreña deserves to be outstanding by their ample program of sport, playful and musical activities. Fair for smallest, dances with orchestra for the majors, throughout the year these gastronomical specialties, concerts of groups fashionable for the young people, and a program of religious acts with great popular fervor, that culminate with nocturnal processions by streets and places.
The celebrations of the Creek, offered to their Virgin of the Carmen, employer of the fishermen, take place in July, and culminate with their terrestrial marine procession.
We recommend very especially the Celebrations of San Juan, the Easter, and the great celebrations of Salobreña, during the first week of October. We talked about the celebrations of the Rosary. They do not stop enjoying traditional romería that the first Sunday of October is celebrated in honor the Virgin of the Rosary.
Fiestas and Romería of the Rosary
During the first week of October, the Virgin of the Rosary is celebrated in Salobreña the celebrations in honor to her employer. Between the activities programmed during the 4 holidays they emphasize the verbenas of the Red House,
concerts of flamenco, tastings of popular food, as well as the nocturnal procession by the old helmet day 7 of October.
We recommend especially the Romería of the South of Granada, that takes place the first Sunday of October. This romería, offered to the Virgin of the Rosary, has its departure place in the Place Juan Carlos I, and arrives at the Beach of the Rock of Salobreña. Numerous preciously decorated floats, rocieros and neighboring riders to horse, choirs with flamenco suits, accompany the employer by Salobreña. In the Marine Stroll a rociera misa is celebrated, as well as numerous activities and concerts. They emphasize the exhibition of taming to horse,
crafts swap-meet, the contest of floats and the fireworks castle. All the neighbors of Salobreña and the region, besides thousands of visitors enjoy this day of celebration outdoors.
Supervisory celebrations of San Juan
The beginning of the full summer of color, light and celebration. During the week of the 24 of June, numerous festive, sport and gastronomical acts meet in Salobreña, to celebrate the celebrations of the Greater Landlord, San Juan Baptist. In young the fairground every night and majors can enjoy attractions of fair, live music, it dances flamenco, and concerts of Spanish artists of special interest for all the ages. The verbena of San Juan is celebrated day 23 at night, and by all means, next to the sea. Thousands of people meet in beaches of Salobreña around hundreds of bonfires that will serve to throw awaited desires. At midnight the fireworks fill of light the wakes of the sea. It is the magical moment. Hundreds of residents and visitors are plunged in the sea. To wash to the feet and the face with water of the sea, in the beach of Salobreña will move away the bad spirits, will bring the good luck and the eternal youth to practice those who it. The religious procession of day 24, the Fair of Tapa in the old helmet, or the traditional contest of fishing is some of the outstanding activities in these celebrations. The celebrations and fair of San Juan in Salobreña extend during almost one week, and are a symbiosis of popular rites and religious celebration that we invited to him to enjoy.
Summer in Salobreña
An ample cultural, sport and musical programming, turns to Villa into forced point of contact for veraneantes and residents of all the region into the months of Julio and August. They emphasize the musical activities of international character in the Red House like the Festivales de Nuevas musical Tendencies, and Flamenco Festival Star of the Dawn; musical concerts in Place of the Laundry of the Creek; the cultural week of the Lobres; the medieval market in Stroll of the Flowers;
sport competitions of tennis, fish, voley-beach, soccer room, petanca; infantile games and spectacles, concerts of classic music in the Park of the Source, popular verbenas in places and gardens, swap-meets nocturnes, are among others, the incentives of the summer in Salobreña. |
