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The Granada Flamenco Biennial is an ambitious artistic project organised by Granada City Council, which arose from the city's aspiration to become European Capital of Culture in 2031. It was also the right time for the city to reconnect with an art form that has contributed so much to the city, just as the city itself has contributed to flamenco. With this major initiative, which will be held in odd-numbered years to alternate with the Seville Biennial (held in even-numbered years), the Granada City Council aims to promote the flamenco art industry in the city of Granada and thus enhance its unique culture and idiosyncrasies in the flamenco styles typical of the city.

The Granada Flamenco Biennial, in parallel with the Seville Biennial, will be held in odd-numbered years, but in the same period, during the second week of September, and in different venues around the city, thus restoring flamenco's splendour to one of the most important cities in the genre and placing it on the international circuits of flamenco music.

Check the whole programme on the official FESTIVAL WEBSITE

The Corpus Christi Fair is the city's main festival. Every year, it begins on a Saturday at midnight with the alumbrao, the lighting of the thousands of light bulbs on the façade, and ends the following Saturday with a fireworks display.

More than five hundred years old, these Corpus celebrations were first held under royal mandate. They form part of the most joyful traditions preserved by the city and throughout its history they have served as a break in the daily life of the people of Granada, providing days of healthy conviviality and fun.

Granada smells of Corpus Christi and dresses up as Corpus Christi during these days when a whole range of cultural events, among which the bullfighting festivities stand out, share time with the ornate stalls and the thrilling swings of the fair.

The fair usually takes place in the month of June but does not have a specific date, as it depends on Easter Week. The way to know the beginning of Corpus Christi is to count 60 days from Easter Monday, the first Monday after Easter Sunday, and this will give us the Thursday of Corpus Christi, the big day of the week.

The fair atmosphere can be enjoyed both day and night. The elegant horse-drawn carriages full of people dressed in the typical regional costumes, the flamenco atmosphere, the ‘casetas’ (stalls) and all their ornaments, all of which are decorated to the smallest detail.

In the Granada fair, unlike other fairs, the public casetas are interspersed with the private ones so that the visitor can freely access each of them.

During the week of the fair there are two processions that go through the main streets of the city:

Every Wednesday of the fair, at mid-morning, the Tarasca, a mannequin wearing the clothes that will be in fashion for the following season, rides through the city on the back of a fierce dragon that seems to be surrendered at her feet. So the best kept secret, until her departure, is the outfit she will be wearing that day. La Tarasca, it could be said, is the pagan counterpoint to the religious festival.

Granada's big festival is organised around Thursday, the day of Corpus Christi, when the whole city fills the streets to watch the procession of the Blessed Sacrament from the altar.

On the Sunday of the week following Corpus Christi, a small procession takes place around the Cathedral, the so-called Octava del Corpus.

On May 3 takes place in Granada and its province one of the most popular festivities in Andalusia: the day of the Cross. For this day the streets, squares, courtyards and even shop windows are decorated and filled with wonderful altars in honor of the Holy Cross. It is also a feast celebrated in the towns of the province.

The feast of the Day of the Cross 2025 will be celebrated in Granada from Friday, May 2 at 14.00 until Saturday, May 3 after midnight. This festival, which attracts thousands of visitors from all over Spain every year, has pagan and Christian origins. In the year 1625 an alabaster cross was made in the neighborhood of San Lázaro and all the neighbors of the area celebrated it by singing and dancing next to it.

Later, the tradition continued in the more typical neighborhoods, such as the Albaycín and the Realejo, and children began to build small altars decorated with manila shawls, ceramics and copper objects.

This year 2025 there will be 62 crosses installed in the capital. A novelty is the May cross that Cervezas Alhambra will install in the esplanade of the Palacio de Congresos to celebrate its 100th anniversary.

Semana Santa, also known as Holy Easter week, is a festivity you will never forget, especially when you celebrate it in Granada! In 2025 Easter in Granada is celebrated from 13 to the 20 of April. During this week processions take place through the city center of Granada leading through the beautiful cathedral of the city!

This Catholic Festivity is very unique when you compare it with other cities in Andalucía. Granada is known as one of the most beautiful cities because of its unique surroundings of the processions and their “pasos” that are known as float of thrones with important religious icons.  

Palm Sunday-  13 April
Palm Sunday is the last day before the lent starts. This day they celebrate the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, 1 week before his resurrection.
On this day 5 fraternities (also known as cofradías) are going through the streets of Granada. Around 16.00h the Church Nuestra Señora del Perpetuo Socorro gives the opening of the holy week by letting out “La Burriquilla”. The best place to see tis procession is from de Arco de Elvira, that is situated behind the large street Gran Vía.

Holy Monday – 14 April
On this day the neighborhood Zaidín which is located in the south of Granada starts its Holy Week by starting their procession at 16.30 h from the church Corpus Christi. They start with their youngest fraternity Santismo Cristo del Trabajo and Nuestra señora de la Luz.  

Holy Tuesday – 15 April
This day around 18.00 h at Plaza Nueva, many people wait to see a spectacular procession that comes from the church of San Gil. The procession is named as Nuestro Padre Jesus del Gran Poder and Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza.

Holy Wednesday – 16 April
Holy Wednesday is a big day in the neighborhood Sacromonte where the gypsies (los gitanos) live. They say that this is one of the most beautiful and impressive procession of the Holy Week. The name of the procession is María Santísma del Sacromonte and starts around 19.20 h at Calle Ganivet. The best way to see it is when it is on his way back to the Abadía del Sacromonte.

Maundy Thursday – 17 April
This is a big day in the old Moorish neighbourhood Albaicín. People are standing in the small streets of Albaicín to watch La Estrellla, La Aurora and La Concha.

Good Friday – 18 April
On good Friday there are 6 processions in Granada.  Around 15.00 h nearly 5000 people will be at Campo del Príncipe in the neighbourhood Realejo to see El rezo al Señor de las favores.

Holy Saturday – 19 April
On Saturday there is only 1 procession which starts at 17.30 h. The procession begins at the church that is located inside the Alhambra namely Santa María de la Alhambra.

Easter Sunday – 20 April
The last day of Semana Santa: The bells of the churches toll joyfully in Granada. There are processions in the morning that close this beautiful week: at 09.00 h starts a procession from the church San Miguel; the last one starts at 11.00 h from the church of Sagrario that is located next to the Cathedral.

For further information regarding the programme of the International Tango Festival in Granada visit the official website

During the festival students can also combine a Spanish course with Tango workshops at our school.

The 39th edition of the Goya Awards will be held on 8 February 2025 at the Palacio de Exposiciones y Congresos in Granada. This was announced on Wednesday by the president of the Film Academy, Fernando Méndez-Leite, and the mayoress of the city, Marifrán Carazo, who were also accompanied by the vice-president of the institution, Rafael Portela, and the city's councillors for Culture and the Presidency, Juan Ramón Ferreira and Jorge Saavedra.

‘It is very exciting to start with a new edition of the Goya Awards in a city as emblematic and unique as Granada, which will surely be enthusiastic about our gala with the excitement of the first times,’ said the president of the Academy, who thanked the mayoress and the city “for their firm commitment” to host the Goya 2025 ceremony. ‘Our films and those who make them possible will be the protagonists of a selection of events -exhibitions, screenings of nominated films, meetings, educational activities...- that will be held here during the more than 10 months that separate us from what will be our big night’, stressed Méndez-Leite.

Focused since three decades ago on the discovery of new talents and the diversity of contemporary cinema, Granada Film Fest has a special interest in upcoming filmmakers of all nationalities, open to films decided to explore new audiovisual forms regardless of their definition, genre, format or duration.

For further information and tickets visit the festival website.