Year Calendar of Major Events, Parties and Celebrations in Ferrol
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City and Naval Station of Ferrol in North-western Spain.
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- ↑ This is a very special day because Saint Julian is the patron saint of Ferrol. On this day all the locals enjoy having a gorgeous traditional sweet rice pudding following a local recipe as they have been doing for so long that nobody can tell for sure when this ancient tradition really started.
- ↑ Also known as "O'Antroido" in Galician.
- ↑ On Saint Josephine's Night all the men of Ferrol take to the streets with their guitars and other musical instruments, wearing traditional gear design for purpose, to sing beautiful songs to every woman young and old, particularly those with the name Josephine or “Peppa” (which means Josephine in Spanish, hence “Noche de la Pepitas”, literally “Night of the young Peppas”).
- ↑ The Holy Week celebrations of Ferrol were declared of National Interest by Spanish Government in 1996. (Spanish) Official website of one of the organisers “Cofradias de Dolores”
- ↑ Every year at the end of the Holy Week the city of Ferrol celebrates a bank holiday devoted to the Holy Virgin Mary at mount Chamorro where a shrine was built by the Andrade family about a century earlier than the discovery of the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492.
- ↑ The best known one is organised by FIMO and is known as "Equiocio" (English) Official website of Turgalicia about EQUIOCIO
- ↑ For "Corpus Christi" Ares and other localities of Ferrolterra, following an ancient Christian tradition, celebrate and rejoice plentiful in style, covering the main streets of their city centres with colourful flowery carpets.
- ↑ St. John's Eve (or Bonfire Night) is celebrated in all the parishes of Ferrolterra with the lighting of bonfires.
- ↑ This special day is celebrated in different ways throughout the different parishes of Ferrolterra; while some of them enjoy preparing beautiful floral offerings dedicated to the Virgin Mary pretty much in the “Corpus Christi” carpets fashion, others are more inclined to organize a small sea or land procession if not a food party.
- ↑ In different parts of Ferrolterra, particularly in the Sierra da Capelada where horse breeding is an important industry, there is an interesting celebration of Celtic roots involving food, music and horses. This is a “Rapa das Bestas” where the newly born horses are marked and have their hair cut as the major part of the event. Of course, the whole event and festivity is open to all visitors.
- ↑ Usually involves different activities like theatrical performances, rock concerts, fireworks and all sorts of organized entertainment.
- ↑ Literally, a re-enactment of the battle which took place in Ferrol between the British and the local Spaniards in the year 1800 where the British, the belligerent force, were driven out from their attempt to capture the most important naval station of Spain in northern Iberia. There were well founded reasons for the British to believe that the Spaniards were going to take side with Napoléon a few years later. And this was exactly what happened. (Spanish) Website of the voluntaries from Madrid 1808–1814
- ↑ Also known as the fireworks of the Marquis of Amboage.
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City Councils of the three Regions of Ferrolterra
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