Calpe’s patron saint Nuestra Señora La Virgen de las Nieves fiestas get underway in earnest on Wednesday, July 31.
July 31 at 13.00: Bell ringing in honour of Nuestra Señora La Virgen de las Nieves and aerial bombardment (loud fireworks)
19.15: Fiesta inauguration with the myrtle parade
20.15: Fiesta proclamation by the fiesta queen, from the balcony of the city corridor
23.30: Live music with Orquesta La Fiesta, in Plaza Mayor
August 1 at 08.00: Fiesta wake-up name in several elements of the city
17.30: Water video games adopted by kids’s foam social gathering, at Parque de la Creatividad
23.30: Carnavalia disco, within the Plaza Mayor
August 2 – Children’s day
10.00: Children’s wake-up name in several elements of the city
10.45: Water video games adopted by kids’s foam social gathering, at Parque de la Creatividad
19.00: Children’s musical manufacturing of La Rosa Encantanda, within the Plaza Mayor
August 3 – Fiesta committees’ day
08.00: Wake-up name in several elements of the city
10.30: Mini disco, in Plaza del Mosquit
11.30: Children’s video games, in Carrer de For a
14.00: Giant paella, in Calle Conde de Altea
16.00: Grand kids’s color fiesta, at Parque del Arcoiris
16.30: Grand water fiesta
00.00: Live fiesta music with Seven Crashers
August 4 – Offering day
08.00: Wake-up name in several elements of the city
10.30: Water video games adopted by kids’s foam social gathering, at Parque de la Creatividad
13.00: Bell ringing in honour of Nuestra Señora la Virgen de las Nieves
20.00: Parade by the fiesta fee by the streets of the city, and assortment of dignitaries from varied elements of the city adopted by floral providing to the Virgen de las Nieves
23.55: Nocturnal mascletá (explosive barrage of coordinated firecrackers and fireworks), within the Plaza Mayor
00.30: Live fiesta music with Monte Carlo within the Plaza Mayor
August 5 – Nuestra Señora La Virgen de las Nieves feast day
10.00: ‘Aerial bombardment’ – loud fireworks
12.00: Parade by the fiesta fee by the streets of the city
13.00: Mascletá (explosive barrage of coordinated firecrackers and fireworks)
18.30: Parade by the fiesta fee by the streets of the city, and assortment of dignitaries from varied elements of the city
19.30: Saint’s Mass in honour of Nuestra Señora La Virgen de las Nieves
Followed by a solemn procession in honour of the Virgen
23.59: ‘Castell a la mar’ firework show
00.30: Live music with La Tribu orchestra in Plaza Mayor
August 6 – San Salvador feast day
10.00: Wake-up name
11.15: Traditional pilota match in honour of Nuestra Señora La Virgen de las Nieves in Calle García Ortiz
19.00: Parade by the fiesta fee and assortment of dignitaries from varied elements of the city
20.00: Saint’s Mass in honour in San Salvador hermitage. Following the Mass there shall be a wine of honour providing
