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Javea's main fiesta of San Juan takes place in Javea old town during June

The fiestas begin mid June and always end on 24th, which is a local bank holiday.

The early days of the fiesta are taken up with bull running in the streets. This takes place several times a day. You will see "cages" set all around the little roundabout at the bottom of the main street. The "braver" souls run around taunting the bulls and only retreat to a cage at the last minute. The bulls do the circuit of local fiestas and obviously pick up some tricks along the way, e.g. the way they anticipate the human evasive action of ducking under or hopping onto the platform

During these early days, there is also the popular International Festival which takes place in the open market place. Stands and pavillions are erected representing all the nationalities living in Javea and offering typical food, drink and produce from each country. Each evening there is non stop entertainment, provided by performers from participating countries.

The streets in the old town are decorated, judged and prizes awarded.

There are street parties and events taking place throughout the whole fiesta period.

Then comes the erecting of the "fallas", which are large papier mache effigies. They normally revolve around some political theme or grievance and can often be quite rude. As the the descriptive placards on the effigies are normally written in Valenciano, it is difficult for the average holidaymaker to appreciate the humour. There are several fallas but the main one is in the old town square, once the bull running has finished.

The whole fiesta culminates in two days of evening cavalcades of floats and bands, with everyone in some kind of traditional costume or fancy dress. Sweets, balloons etc. are thrown from the floats which are closely followed by hordes of children, collecting as they go.

The finale comes with the burning, late at night, of the fallas followed by a magnificent firework display and dancing until dawn in the streets, to the sounds of live music.