The Murcia fair

AurigaCrown Car Hire offers their clients ideas on different events and places to visit during their stay in Spain. Providing options for visits that are within easy reach with a rental car, nice routes, places to visit and from where to start. In this article some tips when visiting Murcia and its surroundings.

For the first two weeks of September the city of Murcia comes alive with parades, pageants and folklore during the annual feria. Special celebrations take place in honour of the city's patron saint, La Virgen de la Fuensanta. The fair is held during September, with different festive events in a range of venues throughout the city.

Concerts, dancing, exhibitions, parades and games make up this festival and will likely have people remembering it for years. It's actually a number of smaller festivals with their own traditions incorporated together. Murcia was once a Moorish kingdom, so it offers both Moorish and Christian tradition (the Moors and Christians festival), but in the meantime the city also organizes a Pop Festival, concerts, the Feria Taurina (the bullfighting fair hosted by the Condomina bullring featuring novilladas, the bullfights with young bulls, mounted bullfights and normal bullfights), a cattle fair, a pilgrimage, the International Mediterranean Folklore Festival, and Murcia's sister city Lodz in Poland brings festivities from central Europe as well. Further there are golf tournaments, competitions, video screenings, traditional games, dinners and a lot of parties. The Huertos del Malecón fairground and the Plaza Romea square are important sites during these weeks.

A great chance to see a multitude of fiestas going on at the same time and to try discover the origins of each activity: Moorish, Catholic, Polish, pop,...? Come and experience it for yourself.
Apart from the range of fiestas there are of course also plenty of possibilities to relax, see and do in and around Murcia:  Murcia´s beaches, nature, the city of Murcía and the salty lagoon at Mar Menor are all within easy range with a rental car. You can rent your car conveniently upon arrival at Murcía airport. If you would like more information on car rentals and prices in Murcia, please visit AurigaCrown´s website.