Mallorca festivities and traditions

Sant Antoni fills a January night with bonfires and demons, and several days later Sant Sebastià, Palma's most popular festivity, fills the streets with concerts and food stalls. The fun-filled Carnaval, with fancy dress parades, precedes the solemn Holy Easter Week, where you can witness impressive processions and the torch-lit representation of Christ being taken down from the cross.

The summer starts with Sant Joan, the night of fire, demons and fairs that lead to a swim in the sea, and continues with the patron saint festivities of the villages, often with parades of gigantes y cabezudos (giants and big-heads) and with the unique Moor and Christian fights in Pollença. 

At the Montuïri or Algaida celebrations you will see the ancestral cossiers, seven men and one woman, dressed in white, performing ancient dances. And on Christmas Eve you will be moved by the emotional medieval Song of the Sibyl, declared Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO