{"id":5528,"date":"2018-04-30T10:01:34","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T09:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grapevinelifestyle.com\/?p=5528"},"modified":"2024-10-08T09:15:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T07:15:53","slug":"events-to-look-forward-to-may-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grapevine-properties.com\/lifestyle\/2018\/04\/30\/events-to-look-forward-to-may-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Events to look forward to (May-August)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Can you believe it&#8217;s nearly the end of April? Where is the year going?!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Summer is coming, so get ready for romer\u00edas and ferias aplenty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Here is our pick from the events coming up this May through August. Let us know if we missed out any good ones!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">May<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"titulo\" style=\"text-align:justify;\"><strong>1st: El Festival de Gastronomia Guaro.<\/strong> Come to the beautiful village of Guaro to try local dishes and vote for your favourite. Start your day at 12.00 in the&nbsp;Centro Cultural Al-Andalus and pick up a site map of all the bars taking part. Think of the day like a bar crawl with tapas, does it get any better than that?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\"><strong>1st: Romeria de Villafranco de Guadalhorce.&nbsp;<\/strong>To honor the patron saint Nuestra Se\u00f1ora Mar\u00eda Auxiliadora, the people of Villafranco de Guadalhorce carry a float of the Virgin Mary down to the Rio Grande on this anual pilgrimage.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\"><strong>2nd &#8211; 5th: Fer\u00eda de Co\u00edn de Mayo:<\/strong> The first of two Co\u00edn ferias begins on the 2nd with day fer\u00edas taking place on Friday the 4th and Saturday the 6th. Soak up the atmosphere at the day feria and let yourself be dazzled by the fairground lights at the feria de noche.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\"><strong>17th &#8211; 27th: Festival de Gastronomia M\u00e1laga.&nbsp;<\/strong>The anual Gastronomy festival in M\u00e1laga kicks off on the 5th of May, this year focusing particually on Basque cuisine. Find a full itinerary of events <a href=\"http:\/\/malagastronomyfestival.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\"><strong>19th &#8211; 20th: Romeria de Guaro.&nbsp;<\/strong>Another romeria, this time in honor of San Isidro Labrador (more about him&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/grapevinelifestyle.com\/2017\/05\/08\/who-was-san-isidro-labrador\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>). The Romeria in Guaro takes place over the weekend, carrying the Patron Saint over the mountain to the river on Saturday, having a big party, making a huge paella (enough to feed the whole village) for Sunday lunch and walking back over to the cerro to the village that evening.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\"><strong>24th &#8211; 28th: Fer\u00eda de Alhaurin el Grande.&nbsp;<\/strong>Put on your dancing shoes, it&#8217;s feria time in Alhaurin el Grande!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">June<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><strong>2nd &amp; 3rd: Romeria de Co\u00edn.&nbsp;<\/strong>Are you ready for the Co\u00edn romeria? Get all our handy tips and tricks <a href=\"http:\/\/grapevinelifestyle.com\/2016\/05\/04\/5-things-to-take-with-you-to-the-romeria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><strong>22th &#8211; &nbsp;26th: Feria Alhaurin de la Torre.&nbsp;<\/strong>The thing that stands out the most to me about the Alhaurin de la Torre feria is the quanity of live acts playing in the different themed casetas. <a href=\"http:\/\/grapevinelifestyle.com\/2016\/07\/06\/get-into-the-feria-spirit-in-inland-malaga\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here<\/a> are few pictures from the A. de la Torre feria from a couple of years ago, we had a great time!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">July<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><strong><span class=\"ic-period-startdate\">23rd &#8211;&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"ic-period-enddate\">26th: Fer\u00eda de La Alqueria.&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"ic-period-enddate\">La Alqueria isn&#8217;t one of the most well known areas in the region however their fer\u00eda is said to be one of best around!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">August<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><strong>11th &#8211; 19th: Fer\u00eda de M\u00e1laga.&nbsp;<\/strong>The most impressive feria in the region has got to be the M\u00e1laga edition. Lasting for over a week, the centre of M\u00e1laga gets transformed for the day fer\u00eda, the streets lined with temporary bars and stages. Then, if your survive the day fer\u00eda, head down to the official fer\u00eda ground adorned with flashing lights, fair ground rides and party tents. This is a spectacle not to be missed!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><strong>23rd &#8211; 26th: Fer\u00eda de Guaro.&nbsp;<\/strong>Wrapping up the summer with one of the final ferias of 2018, Guaro. Think families, friends, pretty flamenco dresses and a buzzing atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Grapevine Properties<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grapevine-properties.com\">www.grapevine-properties.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is our pick from the events coming up this May through August. Let us know if we missed out any good ones! &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grapevine-properties.com\/lifestyle\/2018\/04\/30\/events-to-look-forward-to-may-august\/\" class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Events to look forward to (May-August)<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[464,450],"tags":[437,438,549,444,774,483,517,775,666],"class_list":["post-5528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malaga-lifestyle","category-information","tag-alhaurin-de-la-torre","tag-alhaurin-el-grande","tag-august","tag-coin","tag-events","tag-feria","tag-malaga","tag-may","tag-romeria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grapevine-properties.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grapevine-properties.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grapevine-properties.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grapevine-properties.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grapevine-properties.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.grapevine-properties.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6668,"href":"https:\/\/www.grapevine-properties.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5528\/revisions\/6668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grapevine-properties.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grapevine-properties.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grapevine-properties.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}