Summer season has been inaugurated. The standard San Juans night timethe shortest of the 12 months, has as soon as once more crammed the seashores of Spain with bonfires, rituals and pyrotechnics within the early hours of June 23 to 24.
A person jumps over a bonfire in a city in northern Spain AP/Alvaro Barrientos
The hearth has shone once more on a foggy San Juan night time with 160,000 individuals in A Coruña. The day started with the seashores filled with younger individuals, who had been on the sandy seashores since Friday to order a spot.
Hundreds of individuals got here to the seashores of Las Arenas and Malvarrosa in València tonight to have a good time the night time of San Juan EFE/Manuel Bruque
In Galicia, one of many emblems of the competition is the falla, which this 2024 stars the author Luísa Villalta; for the Tower of Hercules, which celebrates its fifteenth anniversary as a World Heritage Web site; and for Deportivo and Básquet Coruña. The burning of the falla happened at midnight on the twenty fourth, adopted by a fireworks present that began the celebration.
A woman throughout the fireworks present within the El Clot neighborhood, Barcelona EFE/Marta Pérez
Town of Barcelona It has additionally celebrated Sant Joan, some of the deeply rooted standard festivals in Catalonia that begins with the reception of the Canigó Flame, which helps gentle the bonfires.
Celebration on a seaside in Barcelona of the San Juan competition Lorena Sopêna / Europa Press
The story of the night time of San Juan
Some hyperlink the custom of San Juan with the pagan or Celtic festivals that had been celebrated hundreds of years in the past throughout the summer season solstice (that’s, June 20 or 21).
Fireworks on a seaside in A Coruña throughout the night time of San Juan EFE/Cabalar
Throughout these festivals, the Solar was worshiped by lighting bonfires to welcome the nice climate and ask the Solar to not depart the sky. It was additionally requested to keep at bay dangerous omens and entice fertility to the Earth. One other legend says that it was a solution to have a good time the Solar’s love for the Earth. Nevertheless, Christianity tailored this celebration to the beginning of Saint John the Baptist, the prophet who baptized Jesus Christ within the Jordan River.
One of many bonfires lit throughout the night time of San Juan within the Majada Marcial neighborhood, Fuerteventura EFE / Carlos de Saá
Immediately, this competition may be very standard in Latin America and Europe the place, along with celebrating, it’s used to keep at bay dangerous vitality and entice good luck by leaping over bonfires, burning papers and having fun with an evening illuminated by the waves on the shore. from sea.
One of many bonfires lit throughout the celebration of the night time of San Juan within the Montiron neighborhood, in Lugo EFE / Eliseo Trigo
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The bonfires of San Juan already gentle up the seashores
and neighborhoods of various cities in Spain.
Hundreds of individuals have a good time the summer season solstice
on this night time of events, festivals and concert events.
Spain celebrates the night time of San Juan 2024
