Fiestas de san juan madrid

The night of san juan legend

But hey Madrid does not have a beach, what can we do! Although it has no beach, here we celebrate absolutely everything, the night of San Juan was not going to be an exception. And that’s why we also celebrate it!

So now you know, if you want to combine jumping the bonfire (this is only for the brave) as well as having a few dances and a drink, go to Vicalvaro. You can get there either by Renfe or metro. It depends on where you come from, it will take you more or less time, but from Atocha it takes 20 minutes. Real.

And if you don’t feel like doing any of them and you don’t feel like going to any of the San Juan parties, we also have a plan for you: best discos in Madrid.  Remember that we have the perfect accommodation too, because we have a wide variety of apartments in the coolest areas of the capital.

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St. john’s day

The Feast of St. John, also called St. John’s Eve or St. John’s Night, is the Christian feast of the birth of St. John the Baptist on June 24. Some link the festivity or some of its celebrations in rites of pagan origin previous or foreign to Christianity (Litha), reminiscent of human sacrifices.[1] In European-Mediterranean countries, bonfires are usually a common element.

The origin of this custom is associated with the celebrations celebrating the arrival of the summer solstice, on June 21 in the northern hemisphere, whose main rite consists of lighting a bonfire. The purpose of this rite was to “give more strength to the sun”, which from those days onwards was becoming “weaker” – the days were getting shorter until the winter solstice. Symbolically, the fire also has a “purifying” function in the people who contemplated it.

The connection of the rites linked to the summer solstice with another popular and quite widespread celebration of the month of June, the “verbenas de San Pedro” (on June 29, the day that the Christian saint’s calendar gives to the first pope), is even less clear.

History of san juan

Yes, we know that spending San Juan on the beach with the bonfires, the magic, the heat, the waves … It’s much better. But hey, in Madrid there is no beach! Wow! So in the capital is celebrated without water.

The night of San Juan in this municipality of Madrid coincides with its festivities. This Saturday you can enjoy the concert of Maldita Nerea, the bonfire and a foam party with Bomberos de Madrid. All this, in addition to the typical fair attractions and verbena.

The big festival of Tres Cantos coincides with the day of San Juan, June 24. There it is already a tradition to participate the night before in the jump of the bonfire. Throughout the day on June 23 there will be numerous activities, culminating with the popular jump. Afterwards, the party will continue with a Batucada, the concert of ‘La Pegatina’ (00:30 hours) and other concerts.

Feast of st. john in peru

Among the elites we can name an occasion very named by the chroniclers in which, during a suanjanesca representation before Felipe IV in the big pond of the Retiro (1640), an unusual whirlwind arose that finished with everything; or the great celebrations for the bringing of the water of the Canal de Isabel II, that were made to coincide with this day, in 1858.

After the annexation of Canillas to Madrid, the celebration survived there and, after Franco’s regime, the celebration was recovered in some neighborhoods for its popular spirit and pagan inspiration. An old neighbor of Vicálvaro, for example, told it this way:

In the current versions of San Juan in Madrid, bonfires prevail, but perhaps in the Batalla Naval de Vallecas, which coincides with the Virgen del Carmen (la Karmela) since 1982, we could see the persistence of the spirit of San Juan as a popular beginning of summer, related, for example, to the ancient water battles of Cazorla that we mentioned before.

“I was built on water, my walls of fire are”, says the old motto of Madrid and it seems that, of both elements of the renovating festivity of San Juan, in our city always prevailed the water.