{"id":299332,"date":"2025-02-06T09:46:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T08:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alicanteturismo.com\/events\/san-roque-festivities\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T09:46:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T08:46:38","slug":"san-roque-festivities","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/alicanteturismo.com\/en\/events\/san-roque-festivities\/","title":{"rendered":"San Roque Festivities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>San Roque Festivities<\/strong>, held during the second week of August, take place in one of Alicante&#8217;s oldest neighbourhoods, located on the slopes of <strong>Mount Benacantil<\/strong>, under the protection of the <strong>Castle of Santa B\u00e1rbara<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The festivities begin with a lively parade and traditional dances in the <strong>Plaza del Puente<\/strong>, followed by the opening speech that officially inaugurates these celebrations, which have roots dating back to 1559.<\/p>\n<p>Activities include a paella competition in <strong>Calle Balseta<\/strong>, parades with brass bands and the fun tradition of \u2018La bany\u00e0\u2019. The festivities culminate with a mass and procession in honour of the saint, after which locals and visitors enjoy a shared dinner and a lively verbena in the Plaza del Puente.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Roque Festivities, held during the second week of August, take place in one of Alicante&#8217;s oldest neighbourhoods, located on the slopes of Mount Benacantil, under the protection of the Castle of Santa B\u00e1rbara. The festivities begin with a lively parade and traditional dances in the Plaza del Puente, followed by the opening speech [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":308371,"template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[728,754],"class_list":["post-299332","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-parties","mec_category-traditional-festivals"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alicanteturismo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/299332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alicanteturismo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alicanteturismo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alicanteturismo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alicanteturismo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/299332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alicanteturismo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alicanteturismo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alicanteturismo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299332"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alicanteturismo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=299332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}