Markets & Traditional Feasts

LOCAL MARKET

Tuesday and Friday.
Fisterra´s port

CARNIVALS

Variable date: February. Troupe competition.

Fisterra

HOLY WEEK

Fisterra´s Christ Feasts.
Fisterra

SAINT JOHN

June 24th.
Sardiñeiro.

SUMMER CARNIVAL

2nd weekend in July.

Fisterra

FISTERRA ARROUTADA FEST

20th July

Fisterra.

BEACH PARTY

Last weekend in July
Fisterra.

LONGUEIRÓN AND PIRATE LANDING

1st Sunday in August. Gastronomic Feast.
Fisterra.

CARMEN´S FEAST
2nd week in August. 
Sardiñeiro.

END OF THE WAY
Folk Feast.
3rd weekend in August .
Anchoa

SEPTEMBER 8th, 9th AND 10th.

Festivities in honour of Carmen´s Virgin. Maritime procession
Fisterra.

Holy Week – The Christ

Holy Christ feasts are held during the Holy Week.

The various stagings of the Christ Passion are made Holy Thusday and Holy Friday and they are followed by thousands of pilgrims in the environs of the Church of Holy Mary of the Sands.

The main day is the Resurrection Sunday, when, after the performance, it is danced the poles dance, an interesting artistic display which has its origin on the XVII century.

Holy Week Acts

FRIDAY OF THE GRIEVES
Mass, Ninth Masses and Grieves Brotherhood Procession around town.

PALMS SUNDAY
Blessing of the Palms, procession and Holy Mass.

HOLY THURSDAY
Living performance of the last súper and feet cleaning. This act full of symbolism is recreate since years gone by with local sailors and set up one of the more deep ceremonies at the Holy Week

HOLY FRIDAY
Act solemn the Holy Encounter at the square. Images of Jesus the Penitent , the Virgin of the Grieves, Saint John, the Verónica, Simon the Cireneo, are mixed with living characters recreating a typical Via Crucis which finish at the Parochial Church with the Calvary performance. At the evening in the Parochial Church it is celebrated the day liturgy followed by the Unnail act, which give place to the
RESURRECTION SUNDAY
Staging with living characters what maybe was an ancient sacramental mistery play which recounted in verse the arriving of the disconsolate women to the sepulchre and their encounter with the angel who announce them the Lord Resurrection shaped as a proclamation to the wide world with the tradicional Aleluia.