DESTINATIONS FESTIVALS SPAIN & PORTUGAL
SAMPLE PRODUCT
Classic Collection Holidays offers seven nights’ B&B at the five-star Iberostar Grand Hotel Mencey,
Tenerife, from £1,060, including flights from Gatwick on April 1.
classic-collection.co.uk
Osprey Holidays offers four nights’ B&B at the Hotel Dimar in Valencia from £455, including flights from Gatwick, departing March 15.
ospreyholidays.com
Kirker Holidays offers four nights’ B&B for the price of three at the five-star Reid’s Palace in Madeira from £995, departing April 9. The price includes private transfers and BA flights. Book by October 31.
kirkerholidays.com
were set in 2013, they’d risen
to 50,000 – and participants get together to hurl more than a tonne of over-ripe tomatoes at one another for an hour. Tell clients to wear closed shoes and clothes they don’t mind throwing
away, and suggest staying in Valencia – accommodation in Bunol is limited.
w RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS Spain’s Catholicism is particularly evident in its festivals. The most famous is Holy Week, or Semana Santa, celebrated in the last week of Lent, just before Easter. The most dramatic
celebrations take place in Andalucia, with particularly big events in Malaga and Seville. The former features scenes from the Passion of Christ painted on to huge wooden floats, carried
ABOVE LEFT: Moros y Cristianos ABOVE: Las Fallas
through the streets by penitents in purple robes and pointed hats. Flamenco verses are sung and thousands flock to see this lively version of the festival. In Seville, it’s elaborate wooden sculptures, some covered in gold and silver, rather than floats that parade. The bearers are hidden inside the sculptures, so they look as if they are moving independently. In the eighth century, a Muslim
army conquered Andalucia, and it took 700 years for the Christians to win it back. Spaniards celebrate this by dressing up as either Moors
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