Festivals & Events in Granada

Corpus Christi is Granada's biggest festival: a full week of free fairground festivities centred on a Thursday with a moveable date (60 days after Easter, almost always between late May and early June). The procession of the Custodia, fairground casetas in Almanjáyar, the Tarasca figure and the satirical Carocas panels in Bib-Rambla.

Granada's Semana Santa brings together 32 brotherhoods, 58 floats and more than 2,000 costaleros, and holds the title of Festival of International Tourist Interest. It is free and open to anyone on the street. Its hallmark is quiet devotion: the Silencio de la Madrugá moves through darkness to the beat of a single drum, with the Alhambra as a backdrop.

Founded in 1952, the Granada International Festival of Music and Dance is one of the oldest classical music festivals in Europe. Every summer, between June and July, it stages classical music, flamenco, and dance at the Palacio de Carlos V and the Generalife, within the Alhambra. It is a ticketed event: entry must be purchased in advance.