[Sp5]

(05-24-2013 10:01 AM)thegmanifesto Wrote:  

(05-24-2013 01:20 AM)Sp5 Wrote:  

Go to the Feria de Malaga in August, it's a mad party both in-town and at the big fairgrounds which have bars run by all kinds of civic groups, musical clubs and political parties.

Flamenco, massive public drinking, a huge tent with house music, bullfights.

http://www.feriamalaga.com/

Have you been?

Can you break it down a little more?

I was there last year. The Feria has three parts. The first is the day festival, which is in the old downtown of Malaga.



Along Calle Larios and the surrounding streets and alleys there are performances of traditional flamenco dancing and singing.



There are a lot of places to buy this cheap sweet wine, a bottle is 1 or 2 euro. People also bring their own drinks, there was a lot of rum-and Coke.



It becomes a big party as the day wears on and it continues into the early morning, although I read a lot of complaints about the noise, urination, trash from residents in the local newspaper, and the city has put out some regulations to crack down on the late downtown thing a little.

http://www.laopiniondemalaga.es/pi-feria...43945.html





This is a good slideshow of the downtown festival

People are pretty much in groups, families or friends. Not too many tourists, surprisingly, it's 95% Spanish.



The second part is the fairgrounds. The fairgrounds are large, permanent and out on the outskirts of the city, towards the airport.

The fairgrounds open in the afternoon, there is a midway and a bunch of tents run by everyone from small town municipalities in the province, to flamenco societies (peña) to the Marxist-Leninist Party, to just regular nightclub and rock music type places.









That part goes on until dawn.

The third part of the feria is the bullfights, they have a series of fights with the top bulls and bullfighters in Spain. I was lucky to see one of the rare ones where the bull was so badass they spared his life.