More airports to start out utilizing Entry/Exit System, new flights, strikes, fiftieth anniversary of Franco’s demise, low-cost cinema tickets, memorable festivals and extra – this is what to anticipate from life in Spain in November 2025.
fiftieth anniversary of Franco’s demise
November twentieth 2025 marks 50 years since Spanish dictator Francisco Franco died after nearly 4 a long time in energy.Â
Spain’s ruling Socialists have been commemorating the anniversary all year long with a collection of cultural and academic occasions beneath the slogan “Spain in Freedom”, with greater than 100 actions reminiscent of conferences, exhibitions, debates, movies, and interactive occasions throughout the nation, lots of them going down in November.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has additionally introduced that the federal government will publish in November a listing of symbols of General Francisco Franco’s dictatorship to be faraway from public areas.
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All Saints’ DayÂ
November 1st is often public vacation in Spain and is called DÃa de Todos los Santos. This 12 months it falls on a Saturday, nevertheless and it has not be moved to the next Monday in any areas in Spain. While it will not make a lot distinction to children and workplace staff, main outlets and supermarkets will probably be closed on this present day, so it is price stocking up on meals for the weekend on the Friday.Â
The most conventional exercise to do on All Saints’ Day is to go to the native cemetery. Many Spanish households collect collectively the place their family members are buried and clear their graves or depart flowers.Â
READ ALSO: How Spain celebrates All Saints’ Day
Long weekend in Madrid
Madrid has confirmed that Monday November tenth will probably be a public vacation with the intention to have a good time the Virgen de Almudena, town’s patron saint. As this 12 months it formally falls on a Sunday, it has moved to the Monday as a substitute. This signifies that November eighth to tenth will probably be a protracted weekend within the metropolis and if you happen to take Friday the seventh off too, you possibly can get pleasure from a four-day break.
Mallorca and Málaga rolling out EES
Mallorca’s Son Sant Joan Airport in Palma has confirmed that it’ll formally roll out the EU’s new Entry/Exit system (EES) from Nov nineteenth.
It signifies that non-EU vacationers arriving on the island should get fingerprints and photographs taken upon arrival. Residents in Spain however is not going to must register for EES, however you could have your TIE card, in addition to your passport, which proves that you simply reside right here.
READ MORE: EES border checks to be rolled out on Mallorca in November
Although but to be reported within the Spanish press, the British Embassy in Spain has posted on Facebook to announce that Málaga Airport regularly began to implement EES on October twentieth and that it’ll progressively enhance the brand new passport checks by November.
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Festivals in November
Autumn festivals will probably be going down all through November. La Castañada or Castanyada in Catalan is held throughout Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Aragón and coincides with All Saints’ Day and Halloween, regardless that it’s a separate celebration. Essentially, it’s a chestnut competition and also you’ll discover chestnut sellers on road corners roasting shiny brown chestnuts and large pumpkin-coloured candy potatoes. In some locations although they might even mix it with Halloween celebrations.
The Basque Country and Navarre have their very own variations which is called Gaztañerre Eguna or the ‘dÃa de las castañas asadas’, the day of the roast chestnuts. It is often celebrated on November 2nd.Â
Concerts in November
There will probably be a number of high-profile live shows held throughout the nation in November.Â
- Amaral will probably be performing in Huelva on Nov 1st
- The Hives will probably be in Madrid on Nov 2nd
- Jamiroquai is about to play in Barcelona on Nov sixth
- Hauser will play in Bilbao on Nov twenty first and on Nov twenty second in Madrid
- Mumford & Sons will head to Barcelona on Nov twenty third
- Tom Odell may even play in Barcelona on Nov thirtieth
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New flights
Several new flight routes will begin working to and from Spain in late October and November.
- EasyJet will begin operating flights between Málaga and Edinburgh in Scotland on October twenty eighth.
- Also on the twenty eighth, the price range airline will begin flying between AlmerÃa and Liverpool within the UK.
- EasyJet may even begin working between Barcelona and Leeds on Oct twenty ninth.
- On November sixth, Volotea will start flying from Seville to the Italian metropolis of Verona.
- On November seventh, Volotea will begin operations from Valencia to Bordeaux’s Burdeos-Mérignac airport.
READ ALSO – LISTED: The new flight routes to and from Spain in autumn 2025
Doctors hanging in Madrid
The medical unions CESM and SMA have known as for a brand new stoppages and demonstration in Madrid on November fifteenth and additional strikes in December to protest the reform of the draft Framework Statute, which regulates the working situations of healthcare personnel. They need an acceptable skilled classification and regulation of working hours, amongst different calls for.
Walkout at Málaga Regional Hospital
All unions on the Málaga Regional Hospital have known as a five-day strike, scheduled to run from November third to seventh. They are protesting the dearth of employees and assets, the lack of hiring throughout all classes and the shifting of pros from one healthcare unit to a different.
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Christmas lights
The Christmas season appears to have snuck up on us in a short time this 12 months, notably the unseasonably heat October we’ve had. Christmas lights have already been put up in lots of Spanish cities and can switched on in November.
In Madrid, Christmas lights will probably be switched on, on November twenty eighth and can final till January sixth, 2025. This 12 months the road lighting will attain greater than 240 areas in all 21 districts.
In Vigo, the Christmas lights will cowl 460 streets, with 12 million LED bulbs. In addition, 1,161 decorative arches and a couple of,667 illuminated bushes will probably be put in. The actual switch-on date hasn’t but been introduced, however it’s anticipated to be in mid-November.
In Barcelona, the Christmas lights will probably be lit up from November twenty second. This 12 months, the price range allotted to lighting is €3.8 million and new streets in outer mendacity neighbourhoods have been added.
Cinema tickets at discounted costs in November
Spain celebrates its Fiesta del Cine (Cinema Party) from November third to sixth, which is able to see 337 cinemas throughout Spain provide tickets at a reduced value of €3.50.Â
Tickets could be bought on-line, on the movie theatres’ web sites in addition to the cinemas themselves.
Here are the films which can be airing throughout these days, and if you happen to would fairly watch the movies of their unique language (principally English), we additionally have a breakdown of those cines in Spain.
