Festivals in Alcàsser
Discover the main festivals of Alcàsser, where clavarios, confraternities, committees and residents sustain a calendar of devotion and popular culture.
Local festivals in Alcàsser
The usual celebration of the Santísimo Cristo de la Fe major festivities lasts several days around the first Monday after 15 August. San Martín church, Plaça del Castell and streets across the town host the proclamation, parade, music, processional dances, principal Mass, procession, community suppers, a paella contest, sport and fireworks. The Town Council, confraternity, parish, male and female clavarios, associations, bands and residents organise and lead the events.
Virgen del Carmen and Sants de la Pedra
Virgen del Carmen, the town's canonical patroness, is usually celebrated on 16 July with a procession organised by the confraternity and annual groups of clavariesas. On 30 July, young clavarios prepare the festival of Abdón and Senén, the Sants de la Pedra, with religious and popular events leading into the summer celebrations and the following bull-running week.
Other events and popular traditions
Sant Antoni usually brings bonfires and the blessing of animals on 17 January, while Sant Blai includes blessed bread rolls, a children's procession and a pilgrimage. Fallas mobilises the town's committees in March; Holy Week and Easter retain the Sant Enterrament, Sant Encontre and family outings to El Paraís, while Corpus decorates streets and balconies with altars and greenery.