What's On Around Alcúdia and Pollensa - Sant Antoni Fiestas

Are they the best fiestas of the whole year? Some would say they are. They are in midwinter, they are not for tourists (there aren't many at this time of the year), they are very much an expression of centuries-old Mallorcan tradition, which goes back to the fourteenth century and the origins of the fiestas in Sa Pobla, the town which stages the most extravagant and maddest of the nights of fire, witches and demons (Sant Antoni Eve, 16 January).

Sa Pobla's celebrations are the really crazy ones, but they are crazy elsewhere too - Alcúdia, Muro, Pollensa, Puerto Pollensa. And in Pollensa (and Puerto Pollensa), on the day of Sant Antoni itself, there is the rather mad climbing of the pine tree, an event unique to the town and one with no clearly defined origin.

Here are programmes in English for Sa Pobla and Pollensa; others will be added when they become available, but Sa Pobla's fiestas are already underway and on Saturday night (10 January) the town has a demons' fire-run, as also does Pollensa.

http://thehotguide.blogspot.com.es/2015/01/sa-pobla-sant-antoni-2015.html

http://thehotguide.blogspot.com.es/2015/01/pollensa-sant-antoni-2015.html

http://thehotguide.blogspot.com.es/2015/01/muro-sant-antoni-2015.html

http://thehotguide.blogspot.com.es/2015/01/alcudia-sant-antoni-sant-sebastia-2015.html