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Hundreds of people participate in the inauguration of La Nadala, the Christmas fair in Vila Joiosa

"La Nadala, the village fair of these holidays" opens the doors to the La Barbera estate. The inauguration began with a parade from the Centella villa, which went along Colom and Barranquet streets, to the Barbera dels Aragonès estate. The parade was enlivened by a show of jugglers, moissanites, unicyclists, clowns, puppeteers and stilt walkers and the performance of the Ateneu Musical band. Arriving in front of the facade of the Barbera house museum, the lighting of the Christmas lights was accompanied by fireworks and the circus show. Then, the band and the circus artists toured the fair, while young and old enjoyed the attractions, the craft market and the catering service.
 
Ahead, a month of activities make up the program of La Nadala, where the La Barbera estate is the epicenter of Christmas. The fair has children's attractions, including an ecological ice skating rink, as well as a Christmas craft market, catering service, activities for children and musical performances.
 
Nadala will be open every day until January 7. The schedule between December 11 and 14 and from December 18 to 21 will be from 5 to 10 p.m. and on weekends and days that coincide with school holidays, from December 26 to 29 and from 2 to 7 in January, it will be open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
 
During the holidays, the little ones can take part in various thematic workshops. On the 22nd, they will prepare their letters full of wishes in the workshop "Write your magic letter with Santa's elves and elves" so that the next day they can personally deliver the letter to Father Christmas. On Saturday 23rd, Father Christmas will visit La Nadala. Father Christmas will walk the streets of the town center accompanied by the Els Valerios gang until he reaches La Barbera, where the children can visit him and hand him the letter.
 
Children will have fun with children's theater by Arteater, a dance workshop with the Tribalia academy, a Christmas painting workshop by the Angela Gordero Art Space and learn to make Christmas sweets in a pastry workshop children taught by Soflama. They will also write their letters in the "Write your royal letter for the Magi" workshop, since on January 4, the Royal Mail will arrive in La Barbera, after making a parade from Plaza de la Generalitat and going through the Carrer Canalejas, Colom and Barranquet, through which he will be accompanied by the Els Valerios gang. Already at the Barbera, the Royal Mailman will collect all the letters from the boys and girls. On the 5th we will live the most magical evening of the year with the long-awaited cavalcade of the Magi of the Orient, whose parade will go through the streets of the city center and end in La Barbera, where Their Majesties will greet all the attendees.
 
Nadala also has sporting events and on the 29th it will be the stage for the start and finish of the Sant Silvestre family run where the participants will show off their Christmas outfits walking through the streets of the city centre.
 
La Nadala's programming extends to cultural activities at other venues, such as the auditorium of the Llar del Pensionista social center, the Teatre Auditori or Vilamuseu, among others, where Christmas concerts by bands will be offered Ateneu Musical and Agrupació Musical Mediterrani, the Big Band Ateneu, the Colla Els Valerios and the Villajoyosa Choir.
 
On the other hand, we will say goodbye to the year with an afternoon party in the historic center where the musical group La Gran Babylon and DJ Pere Happy will perform. At midnight, the arrival of the new year will be celebrated with the bells of the church of Our Lady of the Assumption, followed by a party, in the same square of the church, enlivened by Thursday.
 
You can consult the complete program of La Nadala on the corporate website of the Vila Joiosa Town Hall and in the hand programs distributed at the tourism office.

Nadala starts with a parade from Calle Colom that reaches the Barbera Park and a circus show enlivened by the Ateneu Musical band.

BENIDORM OFFICIALLY BEGINS CHRISTMAS IN A CROWDED PLAZA DE SS. MM. LOS REYES DE ESPAÑA 

It's officially Christmas has arrived in Benidorm. On Saturday afternoon, Santa Claus arrived at l'Hort de Colón where he will spend, like any other tourist, his Christmas holidays. It was at 6:00 p.m. when l'Hort de Colón opened its doors to the queens of the Festes Majors Patronals, Angélica Morenilla and Daniela Talavera, to their courts of honor and to hundreds of neighbours and visitors who gathered there.

The mayor of Benidorm, Toni Pérez, the Festival Councilor, Mariló Cebreros, along with other members of the municipal corporation have accompanied the top representatives of our festivals on their tour. The regional deputy, José Ramón González de Zárate, the new president of the Commission, María Dolores Cano, and the president of the Association of Penyes 'Verge del Sofratge', Ramón Cano, did not miss the meeting either.

After the reception at l'Hort de Colón and the relevant photos with Santa Claus, the queens and authorities went to the Plaza de Sus Majestades los Reyes de España where, shortly before 7:00 p.m., the countdown to the inauguration began of the Plaza de la Navidad, the epicenter of the Christmas festivities, which will remain open until January 7. Like other years, hundreds of people gathered and were waiting to enjoy a show of light, fire and color that filled all attendees with excitement, especially the little ones. 

The queens of the Festes Majors, together, have declared the Christmas Square inaugurated together with the mayor Toni Pérez by pressing the protocol button to turn on the Christmas lighting, which has been accompanied by great applause from the attendees and which has ended with the launch of a fireworks display.

The Christmas Plaza has shone in all its splendor with its ice skating rink, its children's attractions and its food stalls, which have been at full capacity to the enthusiasm of the minors and families who have gathered.

The varied and complete BeniNadal program can be consulted online from the Benidorm City Council website, by clicking on the following link:  Click Here

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The 'Fancy Dress Party' fills the streets of Rincón de Loix with colour and costumes with around 40,000 participants

Some 40,000 people gathered on the 6th November 2023, at the 'Fancy Dress Party', most of them costumed British tourists who have taken over the main streets of Rincón de Loix through which they usually move. With colour and a good atmosphere as their flag, attendees gathered at this grandiose and gigantic costume party, the largest in Europe, and which, once again, has flooded this neighbourhood of the city with imagination and humor.

Since the morning, hundreds of tourists dressed in their costumes have been seen distributed throughout the local establishments. But it was at 3 p.m. when the most anticipated moment of the day began; the spectacular parade of floats, accompanied by bands, batucadas, DJs, dance groups, etc.

The mayor, Toni Pérez, went there, who enjoyed the parade together with the Councilor for Events and Citizen Security, Jesús Carrobles, and some members of the corporation.  

Around twenty floats have paraded through Lepanto, Derramador and Gerona streets, raising the applause of attendees along the route. This celebration, which had its origins in the idea of ​​local businessman Manuel Nieto, has already become a reference for British tourists, many of whom book their holidays with this event in mind. The organisers have indicated that this year the attendance figure for 2022 has been reached and perhaps exceeded, the year in which pre-pandemic figures were exceeded.

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The “35th Oktoberfest” was officially opened with the traditional “opening of the first barrel” by Dorothea von Drahosch, consul of Germany and Bernabé Cano, mayor of La Nucía. This “Beer Festival ” will take place until October 15 in the parking lot of the Estadi Olímpic Camilo Cano in La Nucía, with free entry. 

The big tent of the La Nucía Oktoberfest hosted the official opening of this “Beer Festival” , which will take place for 11 intense days in the parking lot of the La Nucía Olympic Stadium , with free entry. The start of the Oktoberfest was with the “traditional opening of the first keg of beer” by Dorothea von Drahosch , German consul, Gabriele Schäfer , pta. CCC Association organiser Oktoberfest and Bernabé Cano, mayor of La Nucía. Before, the new queen of Oktoberfest 2023, Ana Llorens Climent, was crowned . As well as the queen of the Festes d'Agost Marta Ferrer and his court of honor.

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Several thousand residents and tourists gathered on the 30th September 2023 to witness the Entry of the Moors and Christians, which took place from 8 p.m. through the main streets of the centre of Benidorm, with an itinerary that started from Tomás Ortuño and ran through Venus, Ruzafa, Martínez Alejos and Gambo to the Plaza de la Hispanidad.

The platform was located in Martínez Alejos, at the height of Pal Street, and was chaired by Mayor Toni Pérez, the Councilor for Fiestas, Mariló Cebreros, members of the local corporation, the president of the Festes Majors Patronals, Vicente Solaz and representatives of the UNDEF among other personalities.

The parade began with the float of the Moorish ambassador, who was followed by the different 'filaes': Tuaregs, Tagarins, Benidarhims and Nasrids, who preceded the pageantry of the Moorish queen and the queen's float. On the Christian side, the float paraded with the Christian warden, the Filá Cruzados and the Filá Cavallers de la Baronía, to which the Christian queen belonged, who appeared with her pageantry made up of the queens and ladies of the Festes Majors Patronals, Angélica Morenilla and Daniela Talavera.

The staging of the 'pirate attack on Benidorm' kicked off the city's 2023 Moors and Christians festivities. Hundreds of people gathered on Levante beach to experience this event that symbolises the arrival of the armies of the crescent to Benidorm.

Hundreds of people have filled the streets of Benidorm this Saturday to witness or parade in the Parade, the central act of Benidorm Pride, celebrations organized by the LGBTIQ+ collective and which represent the culmination of the most important Pride weeks in Europe. The mayor Toni Pérez, together with the Valencian Generalitat Tourism Minister, Nuria Montes, have joined this protest parade, which they have followed from various points along the route together with other members of the municipal executive. 

Rainbow flags, costume, floats, trucks and many people walking have shown the most diverse and welcoming face of Benidorm, a European benchmark for LGBTIQ+ tourism. Not in vain, the City Council, Visit Benidorm and the organisation have estimated the number of visitors who have come to the city expressly to experience these days of festivities and vindication at more than 20,000 people, mostly from the United Kingdom, but also from other points of Spain and Europe, with stays that in many cases extend up to fifteen days. 

The parade has covered a stretch of Paseo de Levante and Avenida del Mediterráneo, Plaza de la Hispanidad and Parque de l'Aigüera, until it reached the Julio Iglesias Amphitheatre, where the party continued throughout the evening.

Benidorm had a great party on Saturday 13th May with the Benidorm Fest Euroclub that was held in the Plaza de la Hispanidad and that served to warm up engines for the Eurovision festival that took place in Liverpool. 

On Thursday, 1st June, Avenida Beniardá has been definitively opened to road traffic after a little over eight months closed to undertake the works of its burial as it passes through the TRAM track. An act attended by the acting mayor Toni Pérez, accompanied by members of the municipal corporation and hundreds of residents who had gathered to take a brief walk through the renovated section

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