The Fogueres de Sant Joan Festival

Festivals of International Tourist Interest

The Fogueres de Sant Joan Festivals are one of the most important events in the city’s diary. This festival has been officially declared to be of International Tourist Interest and its origins lie in the tradition of burning useless objects with the arrival of the summer solstice.

This is the most important celebration, beginning on the 20th June and lasting until the 29th. It is a festival dedicated to fire, including events such as the proclamation (The Pregón), the setting up of the bonfires (the Plantà), the procession of the effigies (Cabalgata del Ninot), parades and processions in different neighbourhoods of the city and the main event on the 24th June, the feast day of Saint John Baptist, when large satirical statues made of cardboard and wood are set alight.

Download your Fogueres 2023 programme here.pdf

Practical information and recomendations

Arroz con chipirones y ajos tiernos. Rice with chipirones (small cuttlefish) and young garlic

320g Rice75ml Extra Virgin Olive Oil500g Fresh Chipirones2 Cloves of Garlic30g Salmorreta (Garlic, fried tomato and ñora “dry red pepper”)A handful of Young Garlic2L of previously cooked fish Stock or Fumé Place the paella pan on the heat with the extra virgin olive...

Recipe of Rice with white anchovies and spinach “Arroz con anchoas y espinacas”

For the fish stock 2 red tomatoes 2 cloves of garlic 1 ñora (dry red pepper) 16 saffron strands 500g morralla (small fish) 1.5l mineral water 150g olive oil 150g sea water Ingredients for the ‘salmorreta’ 2 cloves of garlic 2 tomatoes 4 ñoras (dry red peppers) 100g...

Recipe of Rice with white anchovies and spinach

For the fish stock 2 red tomatoes 2 cloves of garlic 1 ñora (dry red pepper) 16 saffron strands 500g morralla (small fish) 1.5l mineral water 150g olive oil 150g sea water Ingredients for the ‘salmorreta’ 2 cloves of garlic 2 tomatoes 4 ñoras (dry red peppers) 100g...

Recipe Arroz a la alicantina “Alicante-style rice”

• 400g ‘bomba’ rice • Approx. 200g fine clams • 8 Mussels • 8 King prawns • 250g chicken • 150g peas • 100g red pepper • 200ml olive oil • 100g crushed tomato • 4 cloves of garlic • 200g very finely cut squid • Fish stock Pour the oil in the paella pan and sauté the...

The Principal Theatre “Teatro Principal de Alicante”

This theatre opened in 1847, and it is an excellent venue. The main façade is neoclassical. Its interior, built according to Italian style atthe time, is divided into three clearly different areas: lobby, thehorseshoe-shaped cavea and stage.

The ship STS Sedov will be in Alicante from 9th to 11th April

We invite you to one of the last great adventure of our technological age, to a trip on the great traditional sailing ship STS Sedov. Welcome on board!