Festivals in Viveiro

Viveiro local festivals

Viveiro's festive calendar includes the San Xoán de Covas festivities, the San Pedro festivities, Resurrection Fest and other local events. The official tourism website also highlights Viveiro's Holy Week as one of the municipality's essential attractions.

• Name of the municipality's festivities: Holy Week of Viveiro, Festas de San Xoán de Covas, Festas de San Pedro and other parish and cultural celebrations published by the Council.
• Main celebration day: For Covas, the municipal programme places the 24 June as the central day of San Xoán, with solemn mass, procession and musical programming.
• Usual duration: the San Xoán de Covas festivities run for several days around 24 June, San Pedro is celebrated in late June, and Holy Week covers the week of religious events and processions.
• Usual places: Covas, Campo da Pascua, streets of the urban area, religious and cultural spaces, beaches and event venues according to the annual programme.
• Associated traditions: great lumeirada, street parade, sardiñada, mass, procession, festivals, popular music, activities for all audiences and Holy Week processions.
• Who participates: Council, parishes, musical groups, festival commissions, neighbourhood, families, visitors, brotherhoods and cultural entities when the programme contemplates it.
• Other cultural events: Resurrection Fest, Feira Renacentista, programming of the Pastor Díaz Theater, Música Nas Parroquias and events published by the municipal agenda.
• Otras ofertas culturales: historic centre, Holy Week, San Roque viewpoint, Pozo da Ferida, Souto da Retorta, Praia de Covas, augmented reality tourism and routes around the estuary.