Events

January two-day fiesta

Revelta i Beneides de Sant Antoni Abat, bonfires, parades, dancing, and people dressed in fancy bright costumes.

January 20th

Festa de Sant Sebastia - in Pollenca, a procession with two dancers (cavallets) escalating wooden horses

February and March

Carnival Parades - the last jovial events before the Lent Season, marked by extravagant carnivals and parades, quite a spectacle to behold.

March

The more somber events during Semana Santa (Holy Week), processions carrying the cross around towns, re-enacting the passion of Jesus Christ.

April 2nd

Fiesta Sant Francesc - popular feast of St. Francis is celebrated in all of the Balearic islands.

Princess Sofia Trophy - one of the most important yachting regattas of the Balearic islands.

Every 2nd Sunday of May

Festa de Nostra Sanyora de la Victoria – commemorated by mock battles in memory of the 1561 Turkish pirates raid, a fun event bursting with history.

June 13th

Sant Antoni de Juny Held in Arta - parades of locals dressed as horses.

August 8th

Sant Ciriac - although held in Ibiza, the feast commemorates the Spanish recapture of these three islands, Ibiza, Mallorca / Mallorca and Menorca.

August 28th

Sant Agustin - in Felantix, features horse-riding shows and dancing.

Last Sunday of September

Festa des Vermar - in Binissalem, a grape-harvest festival -with floats and concerts; also Festa del Melo - in Vilafranca de Bonany, to celebrate the end of the watermelon harvest.

October 12th

Dia de la Hispanidad - a national Spanish holiday to honor the discovery of the New World by Christopher Colombus in 1492.

Third Thursday in November

Dilous Bo. - in Inca an essential agricultural feast

December 24th

Noche Buena, Christmas Eve nationwide celebrations, nativity plays and midnight mass.

December 28th

Santos Inocentes, the Spanish April Fool's day.