{"id":1677,"date":"2014-06-29T20:55:07","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T20:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2014-06-29T21:05:25","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T21:05:25","slug":"torremolinos-the-place-to-go-for-festivals-and-feasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/torremolinos-the-place-to-go-for-festivals-and-feasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Torremolinos – the place to go for festivals and feasts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Torremolinos<\/a> in Spain<\/a>\u2019s Costa del Sol<\/a> is a hugely popular holiday<\/a> destination for numerous reasons, not least its range of wonderful festivals and superb cuisine. Here\u2019s a round-up of some unmissable events taking place in the next few months\u2026<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Feria del Carmen\u00a0<\/strong>(Virgin of Mount Carmel fair) in mid-July<\/strong> attracts thousands of people to\u00a0La Carihuela, especially on the day that the image of the Virgin is placed on a boat for a trip along the municipal waterfront. The fiesta centres on the El Remo plaza, where there are musical performances and an extremely wide variety of dances.<\/p>\n

In late September\u00a0<\/strong>Torremolinos\u00a0seems to be one big\u00a0pilgrimage, that of\u00a0San Miguel<\/strong>, which is held in the nearby pine groves of Los Manantiales. It is considered the second largest in terms of participants (more than 200,000) in all of Andalusia, after that of El Roc\u00edo. The entourage, with numerous carts that have been profusely decorated for the occasion and an even larger number of people on horseback, leaves the city centre en route to Los Manantiales amid the exclamations of tourists, who do not hesitate to inquire about what they are seeing.<\/p>\n

The pilgrims camp next to the chapel of San Miguel, which can\u2019t come close to holding all the people who want to hear Mass inside the church, and once religious ceremony concludes the party begins and lasts until dark. Singing, dancing and good food are at the heart of this massively attended pilgrimage.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Feria de San Miguel\u00a0(Fair of San Miguel<\/strong>, patron saint of\u00a0Torremolinos) begins a few days later. As in a number of other localities in M\u00e1laga it is held in the centre of the city during daylight hours and at night at the fairgrounds, where practically all the collectives in\u00a0Torremolinos\u00a0and many private individuals set up booths. In spite of the thousands of tourists that come to it, the Feria de San Miguel has preserved an unmistakable Andalusian character, which has been even more pronounced in recent times because there is an earnest effort to keep the old traditions from being lost.<\/p>\n

The town also is a beehive of activity on the\u00a0D\u00eda del Turista\u00a0(Tourist\u2019s Day<\/strong>), which was initiated some years ago to show gratitude to the visitors who have chosen to spend their vacations in\u00a0Torremolinos. The most outstanding events on that day are the folklore performances, gastronomy samplings and the selection of the Tourist of Honour. It does not unnoticed in\u00a0Torremolinos\u00a0when it comes to mounting tourist promotional campaigns that “pesca\u00edto” is one of the greatest attractions. Therefore on the first Thursday in October<\/strong> it celebrates the “D\u00eda del Pesca\u00edto” (Pesca\u00edto day), in which the local restaurants hand out servings of pesca\u00edto to both tourists and residents of\u00a0Torremolinos.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Semana Santa\u00a0(Holy Week<\/strong>) in\u00a0Torremolinos\u00a0got off to a late start (1924) in comparison to other localities in M\u00e1laga. It began with the foundation of the cofrad\u00eda (brotherhood) of Nuestro Padre Jes\u00fas y Mar\u00eda Sant\u00edsima de los Dolores (Our Father Jesus and Holy Mary of the Sorrows), whose headquarters is in the Madre del Buen Consejo parish church. The brotherhood performs its processional march on Good Friday.<\/p>\n

The event calendar also includes a summer film festival<\/strong>,\u00a0“Torremolinos de Cine,”\u00a0screening family movies by the sea in July and August<\/strong>, whereas “Friends of Vintage Cars,”\u00a0in the context of the Fair of San Miguel, is one of the leading car lover gatherings in Andalusia and Spain. Car lovers meet to admire unusually elegant vehicles of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, parading from Plaza de Blas Infante to the Chapel of San Miguel. A flower offering for the patron saint is left in the chapel, and then everybody gets ready for a cookout. “Friends of Vintage Cars” draws higher numbers of visitors every year. 30% of participating cars belong to people living in\u00a0Torremolinos.<\/p>\n

In August<\/strong>,\u00a0Torremolinos\u00a0holds its traditional\u00a0Flamenco Festival<\/strong>, whose 20th<\/sup>edition was in 2008. It\u2019s one of the oldest festivals of its kind in\u00a0M\u00e1laga<\/a> Province, gathering a constellation of flamenco stars every year.<\/p>\n

For a 14-day weather forecast in Torremolinos, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more info, visit\u00a0Costa del Sol Tourist Board\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a9 Costa del Sol Tourist Board<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Torremolinos in Spain\u2019s Costa del Sol is a hugely popular holiday destination for numerous reasons, not least its range of wonderful festivals and superb cuisine. Here\u2019s a round-up of some unmissable events taking place in the next few months\u2026 The\u00a0Feria del Carmen\u00a0(Virgin of Mount Carmel fair) in mid-July attracts thousands of people to\u00a0La Carihuela, especially […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"post_views_count":3823,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[118,177],"class_list":["post-1677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","tag-resort-malaga","tag-resort-torremolinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1679,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions\/1679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}