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Week One winner - Europe's Most Outrageous Festival is....

Week One winner – Europe’s Most Outrageous Festival is….

And the winner of the 2014 One Small World Awards category of Europe’s Most Outrageous Festival is…. (more…)

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BYO Shotgun (Part 2) - Hide Your Hats; The Pirates are coming! Es Firo in Mallorca

BYO Shotgun (Part 2) – Hide Your Hats; The Pirates are coming! Es Firo in Mallorca

If there’s been a common theme thus far with the Spanish festivals of European Bazaar, it has been the definite need of earplugs.

In March, at Valencia’s Las Fallas, it was the likelihood of having your eardrums popped like bubblegum by your close proximity to any one of a million fireworks. At the Mallorcan festival of Es Firoit’s probably going to be because there is a man dressed as a pirate…

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BYO Shotgun (Part 1) : A Little Patch of Paradise

BYO Shotgun (Part 1) : A Little Patch of Paradise

I do have to admit a certain closed-mindedness when it comes to notorious party-island destinations. I’ve always been unenthused by the tales I’ve heard from Bali (or Aus-Bali-a as it could otherwise be known), I found few redeeming features in Corfu and please get my head examined if I ever mention Ibiza as a possible destination. (more…)

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Freaky Festivals - Europe's Top 10 Strangest Festivals

Freaky Festivals – Europe’s Top 10 Strangest Festivals

Bog snorkelling? Hospital bed racing? In 2014 One-Small-World.com goes in search of Europe’s silliest and strangest festivals on a quest to discover why almost every culture loves to court the bizarre.

We humans are an odd bunch at the best of times. Couple that with our love of a party and voila! our own strange tendencies become a cultural occasion. (more…)

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Europe’s strangest Festivals – The New Daily

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Es Firo Festival. Soller, Mallorca

Es Firo is a local festival that runs for five days and commemorates the battle between the Moors and the Christians.  These photos were taken on the Saturday before the battle reenactment which is on a Monday. On this day, there is a parade in which the towns people are dressed in traditional costumes and carry a statue of the Virgin Mary through Soller. They go to the church to place offerings of flowers, oranges and lemons to the Virgin, that she may bless them when the Moors arrive at their shores. 

photos by S.E.A.

"Every year, on the monday after the second sunday of May, Sóller celebrates the festival of the "Moors and Christians", also known as "Es Firo". This "fiesta" commemorates the historical events of 11th May 1561, when an armada of twenty-two Algerian galleons disembarked in Sóller."

http://www.holidayonmallorca.com/Es_Firo_the_historical_battle_re-enactment_from_Soller_Mallorca_Christianos_y_Moros.php