Valencia Festivities: Noche de San Juan
One of the fun things about Spain, and Valencia, is that there are always so many festivals! Recently, we passed the Noche de San Juan. This is celebrated the night of summer solstice, June 23 - Midsummer in as Northern Europeans celebrate it.
In Spain, Noche de San Juan involves fire and water. And conveniently for those of us along the coast, we can go to the beach to celebrate. I went to the Valencia city beach, La Malvarrosa since it's convenient to get to from the city center by bus. This evening, the bus company ran extra buses through the night for this festivity.
Here we can see some fireworks from the promenade. See how many people are here at midnight!
The beach was absolutely packed, and the air was hazy from all of the fires that people made. La Malvarrosa is a very wide beach; this view is actually looking north with the Mediterranean on the right hand side.
At midnight, we went in the water and jumped over the waves and made wishes!
