When spring arrives a blanket of white cherry tree flowers covers the terraced hillsides of the Jerte Valley in Extremadura. The Cherry Blossom Festival is a popular festival that showcases the culture, gastronomy and traditions of a dozen or so towns in the province of Caceres.
Experience Spain’s most spectacular and emotional religious festival. Fervour, art and music are intermingled with a series of religious acts.
You’ll have a wonderful time at the most popular and well attended festival in all Andalusia. From midday you’ll see the people from Seville riding on horseback or in carriages along the city’s main avenues. The April Fair officially begins when they light the “portada”, an enormous structure decorated with thousands of light bulbs located at the entrance to the fairground.
A visit to Cordoba in May will lead you straight to the city’s treasure. For two weeks, the people of Cordoba proudly open the gates to their patios in the historical old town and deck them out specially for the occasion with pots full of geraniums, carnations and jasmines that hang from the whitewashed walls.
This religious and festive event is held 50 days after Easter. As many as a million people come from all over Spain to the sanctuary of the “White Dove” in the village of El Rocio in Almonte (Huelva), very near the marshlands of the Doñana National Park.
