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MARBELLA. EVENTS. Regional Festivals

The festivals that complete the yearly calendar around the whole of Andalucía are also accessible to travellers, both local people, who may want to celebrate fiestas in other settings, and overseas visitors. Semana Santa  is one of the most magical weeks of the year in Málaga. In the week between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday, all of the local parish groupings carry their statues of the Virgin and Christ through the town. From the youngest to the oldest, and from the poor to the rich, everyone "arriman el hombro", lends a hand, and participates in a week replete with traditional, culture, history, emotion, magic and religion. The visitor can simply look, admire and enjoy the spectacle. A fuller comprehension of Semana Santa only comes after some years of experiencing it. 

The August festival in Málaga has become the Great Summer Festival, with a sensibility that is open, cosmopolitan and international, reflecting the character of the capital of the leading tourism zone in Europe: The City of Málaga, the nerve centre of the Costa del Sol and its metropolitan area. 

The feria in Estepona, as famous as that in Marbella, is celebrated at the height of summer, in the middle of July.