FESTIVAL OF SAN CECILIO

Granada celebrates the festival of San Cecilio, patron saint of the city, on the 06 of February.

This day there is a pilgrimage to Sacromonte and a mass in his honor.

The famous Pilgrimage of San Cecilio to the Abbey of Sacromonte begins at 11.00 in the morning, when a municipal delegation, escorted by the four maceros of the city, set off along the Camino Viejo del Fargue towards the Abbey. Subsequently, the members of the municipal corporation go inside the Abbey, where the celebration of a mass officiated by the Archbishop of Granada takes place.

As in any pilgrimage there is a part of popular festive acts such as local and regional dances and music at the foot of the Sacromonte Abbey. Where a stage and a bar are set up to serve all the pilgrims, tourists and neighbors who want to celebrate the party.

Many groups, preferably young people and families, spread out over the mountain and make their country meal with wine from the region, jayuya cakes, salaíllas, cod, broad beans, Sacromonte tortilla and other local products.

This pilgrimage has been celebrated since 1599, the year in which a plague devastated Granada and from which, according to tradition, it came out by invoking the saint. In the past, many people from Granada went up and made a pilgrimage to the caves to venerate the relics before an institutional pilgrimage was made official.