This document lists the major festivities celebrated in San Roque throughout the year. These include New Year's Eve and Day on December 31st and January 1st, Reyes Magos (Three Kings Day) on January 6th, Carnaval in late February, Semana Santa (Holy Week) from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday in late March-early April, San Juan's Night on June 23rd, the Feria (fair) from August 9th-13th, and Christmas Day on December 25th. Many of the festivities involve religious processions through town and celebrations with family and friends.

1. San Roque’s festivities.
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2. Index:
• 1st January: New Year’s day.
• 6th January: Reyes Magos.
• 23th February: Carnaval.
• From 24th to 31st March: Semana Santa.
• 23th June: San Juan’s night.
• From 9th to 13th August: Feria.
• 25th December: Christmas’ day.
• 31st December: New year's eve.

3. New Year’s eve and New Year’s day.
• 31st December: People go to each others’ to
have dinner with their family and friends and
they all eat the famous 12 grapes at 00:00!
After they eat the grapes, they toast with
champagne, wish a happy new year to each
others and finally the young people go party
to La Alameda’s party tent.

4. Reyes Magos.
• On 5th January they do the Reyes Magos’
parade which ends at Juan Luis Galiardo’s
theater.

5. • Reyes Magos come while children sleep and
leave presents for them under the Christmas
tree.

6. Carnaval
• A week before Carnaval’s day, it starts a
competition between bands of chirigotas and
comparsas and the prize’s given to them on
Carnaval’s day.
• By the evening there’s also a Carnaval pride
where people go wearing costumes and they do a
competition to the most original to win.
• There’s a party tent in La Alameda where the
coustume’s prize’s given and party goes on all
night.

7. Semana Santa.
• On Sunday they do the “Domingo de Ramos” and there’s a funny say which says
“Domingo de Ramos, el que no estrena ná’ se le caen las manos”
• On Monday “la Oración del Huerto” and “Nuestra Señora del Mayor Dolor” go
from the hermitage to the principal church.
• On Tuesday “Cristo de la Humildad y Paciencia” also called “Cristo de la Caña” and
“Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza” go around the town from the church.
• On Wednesday “Ntra. Sra. De las Angustias” goes from Nuestra Señora de la
Visitación’s chapel to the church, and “Medinaceli” and “Nuestra Señora de la
Merced” go from Santísima Trinidad’s chapel to the church as well.
• On Thursday “Jesús Nazareno” and “María Santísima de los Dolores” go from
Nuestra Señora de la Visitación’s chapel to the church, “Santo Encuentro en la
Plaza Andalucía” ends at the church, “El Santo entierro” and “La Soledad” too.
• On Friday they do the “Procesión Magna” which consists of the Saints going one
after the other one.
• And finally, Sunday’s the “Domingo de Resurección”, when “Jesús Resucitado” goes
around the town.

9. San Juan’s night.
• They do a fire in each neighborhood where
they burn their wishes written on a paper.

10. Feria.
• The first night is the queen and the misses’
coronation and all the others days are party
ones, children play on tracks and young and
old people go from a party tent to another.
• Finally, on Monday they do the “Toro del
aguardiente” which consists in people runing
in front of a bull untill they arrive to the
bullring.

11. Christmas’ day.
• On Christmas they eat with each other at each
other’s and sing carols all together.
• They put baby Jesus Christ’s statue on the
Nativity scene which is on san Roque’s streets.