What festivals are there in Galicia, Spain?
What festivals are there in Galicia, Spain?Answer: Galicia, as is the case with the whole of Spain, has a number of big festivals throughout the year. Here are a few of them: • When St. James birthday (July 25th) falls on a Sunday (the next time is 2010), the whole region, and, especially Santiago de Compostela, celebrates for the month of July, with fireworks, special exhibits, live music, open air markets, etc. • The week before and including November 11th in and around Orense is a holiday called Magosto (meaning either large fire or ‘magic fire’), when the new wine is tried out and chestnuts are roasted in huge barrels. • La Rapa das Bestas (The Taming of the Beasts) takes place at the end of June or beginning of July in and around Pontevedra. A festival going back, it is believed, to the Bronze Age, it concerns livestock owners rounding up their wild horses, one man per horse, and ‘taming’ it enough for it to have its mane sheared and be branded. Also bear in mind that since there
