Hogueras 2007, Alicante

San Juan, June 25, is one of the biggest holidays in Alicante. Certainly, it is the most celebrated. This year, 1 million visitors were expected and it certainly felt like every one of them showed up.

For an entire week, the city vibrates with the hustle and bustle of music, marching bands and firecrackers. Party tents are erected all over town, children and adults stay up all night and those who don't like to party still don't get any sleep. With astonishing sadism, marching bands accompanied by firecracker-throwing maniacs walk up and down the city at 8am the next morning to awaken everyone to another day of madness.

The highlight is the "Cremá", when the 100+ figures positioned all over town are burned ceremoniously at midnight. These "hogueras", some as high as a three-story building, are built in a painstaking process throughout the previous year just to be burned to the ground to the cheers of the appreciative crowd. Check out the pictures what this looked like....

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[zabzab1231]

Love this event in Alicante,can't wait for june 2010 to be there again.