Festivals & Traditions This Week 5–11 October 2026
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Festivals & Traditions This Week 5–11 October 2026
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This week Carmen and Baptiste explore several very different answers.
Fuengirola’s Feria del Rosario and Nerja Feria are the two major coastal stories, but rather than repeat Málaga Radio’s dedicated feria specials, this episode uses them to explain why a feria can contain several different experiences at once — town-centre tradition, fairground energy, food, music, families, procession and late-night social life.
Then the journey moves inland to Ojén and the Feria de San Dionisio, where the scale becomes more intimate and the mountain town itself becomes part of the celebration.
Back in Málaga, El Palo’s Fiestas del Rosario offers another contrast: a neighbourhood patronal tradition centred on faith, family memory and local identity rather than a fairground.
Churriana and Santo Domingo add further Rosario context, showing how similar traditions take on different characters in different communities.
The message is simple: do not try to complete a feria. Understand what you are looking at, choose the version that interests you, and let the celebration introduce itself.
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This episode includes AI-generated content.
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